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Quote by Wallace Stevens
All the great things have been denied and we live in an intricacy

All the great things have been denied and we live in an intricacy of new and local mythologies, political, economic, poetic, which are asserted with an ever-enlarging incoherence. – Wallace Stevens

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To regard the imagination as metaphysics is to think of it as part of life, and to think of it as part of life is to realize the extent of artifice. We live in the mind. – Wallace Stevens

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In poetry, you must love the words, the ideas and the images and rhythms with all your capacity to love anything at all. – Wallace Stevens

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Myth is neither a lie nor a confession: it is an inflexion. – Roland Barthes

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Myths which are believed in tend to become true. – George Orwell

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He said myths and mythology wasnt to give meaning to life but to give us an experience of life, an experience of vitality in being alive. – Joseph Campbell

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Sometimes legends make reality, and become more useful than the facts. – Salman Rushdie

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