Wizard Island & Crater Lake, Oregon

to possess this new liberty, this leaping of the imagination, triumphant over reality, over relative values, smashing the bars of reason's cage, and bird that it is, obedient to the voice of the wind, detach itself from the earth to soar higher, farther... O, wonderful responsibility of poets... With one thrust they pushed back the horizon and there in the midst of space have just discovered an Island. We touch this Island with our finger. — René Crevel's surrealist essay “L'Esprit contre la raison” (1924)

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