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Wallace Stevens

“We cannot look at the past or the future except by means of the imagination but again the imagination of backward glances is one thing and the imagination of looks ahead something else. Even the psychologists concede this present particular, for, with them, memory involves a reproductive power, and looks ahead involve a creative power: the power of our expectations.”

Wallace Stevens, The Necessary Angel: Essays on Reality and the Imagination
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The Necessary Angel: Essays on Reality and the Imagination The Necessary Angel: Essays on Reality and the Imagination by Wallace Stevens
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