A Quote by Wallace Stevens
The magnificent cause of being,
The imagination, the one reality
In this imagined world.
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Mostly I straddle reality and the imagination. My reality needs imagination like a bulb needs a socket. My imagination needs reality like a blind man needs a cane.
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