Ver cómo se disipan en el aire los dioses
disueltos como nubes: nos ha tocado en suerte.
No un instante perdidos detrás del horizonte,
ni vencidos por dioses más sabios y potentes: 
sino en nada, sin más, resueltos simplemente.

WALLACE STEVENS
en “The Imagination as Value”, de The Necessary Angel.

En prosa en el original:
“To see the gods dispelled in mid-air and dissolve like clouds is one of the great human experiences. It is not as if they had gone over the horizon to disappear for a time; nor as if they had been overcome by other gods of greater power and profounder knowledge. It is simply that they came to nothing.”
A.A.