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Essentials Quotes by Wallace Stevens
- Poetry has to be something more than a conception of the mind. It has to be a revelation of nature. Conceptions are artificial. Perceptions are…
- The essential fault of surrealism is that it invents without discovering. To make a clam play an accordion is to invent not to discover. The…
- Conceptions are artificial. Perceptions are essential.
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