Page 1. round as a sphere: H. Silberer, Hidden Symbolism of Alchemy and the Occult Arts. New York, 1971.
Page 2. Neolithic dead: David Lewis-Williams & David Pearce, Inside the Neolithic Mind. London, 2005.
Page 3. I thought hard: William Stafford, "Traveling Through the Dark."
Page 4. the heaven descented bard: Ovid, Metamorphoses. Book Ten.
Page 5. necessary angel of earth: Wallace Stevens. From, "Angel Surrounded by Paysans."
Page 7. sings its capacity as desire: Gaston Bachelard, Water and Dreams. Dallas, 1983.
             Swanee. George Gershwin and Irving Caesar, 1919.
Page 11. Rationally shouldn't: James Hillman, "Notes on the Meaning of Kali Symbolism." Opus Archive, Pacifica Graduate Institute, Carpinteria CA.
               the other night: Maurice Blanchot.The Gaze of Orpheus. Barrytown NY, 1995.
Page 12. I go a-fishing in: Henry D. Thoreau.Walden. New York, 1910.
               Cézanne is asking himself: Jed Perl."Interpreting Nature." New York Review of Books, July 22,2021.
               the limit of what art can attain: Maurice Blanchot, The Gaze of Orpheus. Barrytown NY, 1995.
Page 15. He, dancer in the abyss: René Char, "Bird Man And Dying Bison." Robert Baker, trans. "This is the point of convergence of body and enthusiasm,
dance and spirit, fruit and perversity." James R. Lawler, René Char: The Myth and The Poem. Princeton NJ., 1978.