Famous quotes containing the word fictive:
“This will make widows wince. But fictive things
Wink as they will. Wink most when widows wince.”
—Wallace Stevens (1879–1955)
“The lovelorn: knowing the fictive nature of their misery does not ease their suffering.”
—Mason Cooley (b. 1927)
“The major men
That is different. They are characters beyond
Reality, composed thereof. They are
The fictive man created out of men.
They are men but artificial men.”
—Wallace Stevens (1879–1955)