Reality is a cliché from which we escape by metaphor. — Wallace Stevens, The Necessary Angel: Essays on Reality and the Imagination
Reality is a cliché from which we escape by metaphor. — Wallace Stevens, The Necessary Angel: Essays on Reality and the Imagination
Reality is a cliché from which we escape by metaphor. — Wallace Stevens, The Necessary Angel: Essays on Reality and the Imagination
Reality is a cliché from which we escape by metaphor. — Wallace Stevens, The Necessary Angel: Essays on Reality and the Imagination
Reality is a cliché from which we escape by metaphor. — Wallace Stevens, The Necessary Angel: Essays on Reality and the Imagination
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Reality is a cliché from which we escape by metaphor.

— Wallace Stevens, The Necessary Angel: Essays on Reality and the Imagination
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