The degree in which a poet's imagination dominates reality is, in the …

George Santayana
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The degree in which a poet's imagination dominates reality is, in the end, the exact measure of his importance and dignity. ✨ George Santayana, Marianne S. Wokeck, Martin A. Coleman, James Gouinlock (2015). The Life of Reason Or The Phases of Human Progress: Reason in Art, Volume VII, Book Four, p.70, MIT Press
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