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God and the imagination are one.

Wallace Stevens

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Wallace Stevens
Age: 75 †
Born: 1879
Born: October 2
Died: 1955
Died: August 2
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It is never the thing but the version of the thing: The fragrance of the woman not her self, Her self in her manner not the solid block, The day in its color not perpending time, Time in its weather, our most sovereign lord, The weather in words and words in sounds of sound.
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The imagination loses vitality as it ceases to adhere to what is real.
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It has to be living, to learn the speech of the place, It has to face the man of the time.
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Funest philosophers and ponderers, Their evocations are the speech of clouds.
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