Famous Quotes | Our sense of these things...

Our sense of these things changes and they change,
Not as in metaphor, but in our sense
Of them. So sense exceeds all metaphor.
It exceeds the heavy changes of the light.
It is like a flow of meanings with no speech
And of as many meanings as of men.
- Wallace Stevens
Attribution: Wallace Stevens (1879–1955), U.S. poet. “Bouquet of Roses in Sunlight.”

Categories: Meaning, Metaphors, Sense

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