Wallace Stevens: The Artist, Reality, And The Need For Imagination
Brain Pickings
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6/12/17
"[The artist] must be able to abstract himself and also to abstract reality, which he does by placing it in his imagination… It is imperative for him to make a choice, to come to a decision regarding the imagination and reality; and he will find that it is not a choice of one over the other and not a decision that divides them, but something subtler, a recognition that here, too, as between these poles, the universal interdependence exists, and hence his choice and his decision must be that they are equal and inseparable.”