There is always an analogy between nature and the imagination, and possibly poetry is merely the strange rhetoric of that parallel. (Wallace Stevens)

There is always an analogy between nature and the imagination, and possibly poetry is merely the strange rhetoric of that parallel.

Wallace Stevens

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