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Reality is a cliché from which we escape by metaphor.

Reality is a cliché from which we escape by metaphor.

Wallace Stevens
Reality, Metaphor
Wallace Stevens (2011). “Opus Posthumous: Poems, Plays, Prose”, p.260, Vintage

Reality is not what it is. It consists of the many realities which it can be made into.

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Reality, Made

Poetry increases the feeling for reality.

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Reality, Feelings, Increase
Wallace Stevens (2011). “Opus Posthumous: Poems, Plays, Prose”, p.243, Vintage

Metaphor creates a new reality from which the original appears to be unreal.

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Reality, Metaphor, Unreal
Wallace Stevens (2011). “Opus Posthumous: Poems, Plays, Prose”, p.250, Vintage

Realism is a corruption of reality.

Wallace Stevens
Reality, Corruption, Realism

I am the angel of Reality, Seen for a moment standing in the door.

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Angel, Reality, Doors
Wallace Stevens (2011). “The Palm at the End of the Mind: Selected Poems and a Play”, p.437, Vintage

What our eyes behold may well be the text of life but one's meditations on the text and the disclosures of these meditations are no less a part of the structure of reality.

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Eye, Reality, Meditation
Wallace Stevens, Henry E. Huntington Library and Art Gallery (1989). “Sur Plusieurs Beaux Sujects: Wallace Stevens' Commonplace Book”, p.12, Stanford University Press

The magnificent cause of being, The imagination, the one reality In this imagined world.

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Reality, Imagination, World
Wallace Stevens (2012). “The Emperor of Ice-Cream and Other Poems”, p.66, Courier Corporation

It is the imagination pressing back against the pressure of reality. It seems, in the last analysis, to have something to do with our self-preservation; and that, no doubt, is why the expression of it, the sound of its words, helps us to live our lives.

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Reality, Self, Expression
Wallace Stevens (2011). “The Necessary Angel: Essays on Reality and the Imagination”, p.36, Vintage

How cold the vacancy When the phantoms are gone and the shaken realist First sees reality. The mortal no Has its emptiness and tragic expirations.

Wallace Stevens
Reality, Vacancy, Gone
Wallace Stevens (2011). “The Palm at the End of the Mind: Selected Poems and a Play”, p.331, Vintage

The physical world is meaningless tonight And there is no other.

Wallace Stevens
Reality, Tonight, World
Wallace Stevens (1997). “Collected Poetry and Prose”

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