“The essential fault of surrealism is that it invents without discovering. To make a clam play an accordion is to invent not to discover. The observation of the unconscious, so far as it can be observed, should reveal things of which we have previously been unconscious, not the familiar things of which we have been conscious plus imagination. p. 919”
― Wallace Stevens: Collected Poetry & Prose
― Wallace Stevens: Collected Poetry & Prose
“Sentimentality is a failure of feeling. p.903”
― Wallace Stevens: Collected Poetry & Prose
― Wallace Stevens: Collected Poetry & Prose
“Thought is an infection. In the case of certain thoughts it becomes an epidemic. p901”
― Wallace Stevens: Collected Poetry & Prose
― Wallace Stevens: Collected Poetry & Prose
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