When I Am Formulated Sprawling on a Pin?

And I have known the eyes already, known them all— The eyes that fix you in a formulated phrase, And when I am formulated, sprawling on a pin, When I am pinned and wriggling on the wall, Then how should I begin To spit out all the butt-ends of my days and ways?

Would it have been worth while if one settling a pillow or throwing off a shawl and turning toward the window should say that is not it at all that is not?

It is impossible to say just what I mean! But as if a magic lantern threw the nerves in patterns on a screen: Would it have been worth while If one, settling a pillow or throwing off a shawl, And turning toward the window, should say: "That is not it at all, That is not what I meant, at all." No!

Do I dare disturb the universe in a minute there is time for decisions and revisions which a minute will reverse?

"Do I dare disturb the universe? In a minute there is time for decisions and revisions which a minute will reverse." ... Do I dare disturb MY universe? "For I have known them all already, known them all, have known the evenings, mornings, afternoons, I have measured out my life with coffee spoons."