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Wallace Stevens

We say God and the imagination are one... How high that highest candle lights the dark.

Imagination

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Wallace Stevens suggests that the concept of God is deeply connected to human imagination, implying that our creative mind shapes how we perceive the divine. The phrase about the highest candle lighting the dark means that the strongest imaginative ideas illuminate the unknown or mysterious parts of life.

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