The first idea is an imagined thing. - Wallace Stevens

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The first idea is an imagined thing.

Wallace Stevens

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Wallace Stevens (2 October 1879 – 2 August 1955) was an American modernist poet and businessman.

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So poisonous Are the ravishments of truth, so fatal to The truth itself, the first idea becomes The hermit in a poet’s metaphors, Who comes and goes and comes and goes all day.

Accuracy of observation is the equivalent of accuracy of thinking.

I can Do all that angels can. I enjoy like them, Like men besides, like men in light secluded,<p> Enjoying angels.

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