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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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After a lustre of the moon, we say We have not the need of any paradise, We have not the need of any seducing hymn.
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The reason can give nothing at all Like the response to desire.
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Everything possessed the power to transform itself, or else, and what meant more, to be transformed.
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And what's above is in the past As sure as all the angels are.
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A poem need not have a meaning and like most things in nature often does not have.
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To lose sensibility, to see what one sees, As if sight had not its own miraculous thrift, To hear only what one hears, one meaning alone, As if the paradise of meaning ceased To be paradise, it is this to be destitute.
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