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Conceptions are artificial. Perceptions are essential.

Conceptions are artificial. Perceptions are essential.

Wallace Stevens
Perception, Essentials, Artificial
Wallace Stevens (2011). “Opus Posthumous: Poems, Plays, Prose”, p.246, Vintage

Perhaps there is a degree of perception at which what is real and what is imagines are one: a state of clairvoyant observation, accessible or possibly accessible to the poet or, say, the acutest poet.

Wallace Stevens
Real, Poetry, Perception

Poetry has to be something more than a conception of the mind. It has to be a revelation of nature. Conceptions are artificial. Perceptions are essential.

Wallace Stevens
Perception, Mind, Essentials
Wallace Stevens (2011). “Opus Posthumous: Poems, Plays, Prose”, p.246, Vintage

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