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Quote by Wallace Stevens
If poetry should address itself to the same needs and aspirations,

If poetry should address itself to the same needs and aspirations, the same hopes and fears, to which the Bible addresses itself, it might rival it in distribution. – 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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My next project is to get back to that. Actually, to learn how to write poetry. Im not kidding. – Harry Mathews

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I work on words, mostly, toward them being poetry or short stories, and then some of those become songs. They all find their place in the world, but they all start off in the same place. Im always painting and drawing as well, and its an ongoing creative assignment. – P. J. Harvey

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Poetry is mans rebellion against being what he is. – James Branch Cabell

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