There is always an analogy between nature and the imagination, and possibly poetry is merely the strange rhetoric of that parallel.

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There is always an analogy between nature and the imagination, and possibly poetry is merely the strange rhetoric of that parallel.

-- Wallace Stevens

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I do not know which to prefer,The beauty of inflectionsOr the beauty of innuendosThe blackbird whistlingOr just after.

-- Wallace Stevens

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From this the poem springs: that we live in a place That is not our own and, much more, not ourselves And hard it is in spite of blazoned days.

-- Wallace Stevens

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We say God and the imagination are one… How high that highest candle lights the dark. –

-- Wallace Stevens

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In the world of words, the imagination is one of the forces of nature.

-- Wallace Stevens

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