Wallace Stevens, Opus Posthumous: Poems, Plays, Prose Quotes
It is necessary to any originality to have the courage to be an amateur.
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.
Most modern reproducers of life, even including the camera, really repudiate it. We gulp down evil, choke at good.
