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If poetry should address itself to the same needs and aspirations, the same hopes and fears, to which the Bible addresses itself, it might rival it in distribution.

Wallace Stevens
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Wallace Stevens (2011). “The Necessary Angel: Essays on Reality and the Imagination”, p.144, Vintage
If poetry should address itself to the same needs and aspirations, the same hopes and fears, to which the Bible addresses itself, it might rival it in distribution.