Wallace Stevens said this quote

“ It matters, because everything we sayOf the past is description without place, a castOf the imagination, made in sound;And because what we say of the future must portend,Be alive with its own seemings, seeming to beLike rubies reddened by rubies reddening. ”

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The final belief is to believe in a fiction, which you know to be a fiction, there being nothing else. The exquisite truth is to know that it is a fiction and that you believe in it willingly.

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Perhaps the truth depends on a walk around the lake.

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I am the truth, since I am part of what is real, but neither more nor less than those around me.

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After the final no there comes a yes / And on that yes the future world depends.

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