Some articles on supreme fiction:
Wallace Stevens - Poetry - Supreme Fiction
... His solution might be summarized by the notion of a “Supreme Fiction,” an idea that would serve as a fictive replacement for the idea of God, known to be fictive but willfully ... accessible, but ultimately unsatisfying, notions of reality Poetry is the supreme Fiction, madame ... The supreme fiction is that conceptualization of reality that seems to resonate in its rightness, so much so that it seems to have captured, if only for a moment, something actual and real ...
... His solution might be summarized by the notion of a “Supreme Fiction,” an idea that would serve as a fictive replacement for the idea of God, known to be fictive but willfully ... accessible, but ultimately unsatisfying, notions of reality Poetry is the supreme Fiction, madame ... The supreme fiction is that conceptualization of reality that seems to resonate in its rightness, so much so that it seems to have captured, if only for a moment, something actual and real ...
Famous quotes containing the words fiction and/or supreme:
“A predilection for genre fiction is symptomatic of a kind of arrested development.”
—Thomas M. Disch (b. 1940)
“Beauty of whatever kind, in its supreme development, invariably excites the sensitive soul to tears.”
—Edgar Allan Poe (1809–1845)