I'm waiting to organize web copy today and that reminded me of Wallace Stevens' "The Idea of Order at Key West," which you can read in full here.
She measured to the hour its solitude. She was the single artificer of the world In which she sang. And when she sang, the sea, Whatever self it had, became the self That was her song, for she was the maker. Then we, As we beheld her striding there alone, Knew that there never was a world for her Except the one she sang and, singing, made.