The realities of the world seldom measure up to the sublime design

The realities of the world seldom measure up to the sublime designs of human imagination. – Bryant H. McGill

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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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