Imagination has no source except in reality, and ceases to have any
value when it departs from reality.
--Wallace Stevens
Ideas of Order was offered to the reading public of the thirties by
a man not in the least ignorant of the issues or, for that matter,
of the controversies and the codes.
--Stanley Burnshaw
A poem . . . is a kind of strategy for coping with a given scene or
situation.
--T. C. Wilson, a radical poet, writing about Kenneth Burke
Document URL:
http://www.english.upenn.edu/~afilreis/Stevens/epigraphs-right-to-left.html
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