We say God and the imagination are one... How high that highest candle lights the dark. — Wallace Stevens Copy Share Image
The imagination loses vitality as it ceases to adhere to what is real. — Wallace Stevens Copy Share Image
Imagination is the power of the mind over the possibilities of things. — Wallace Stevens Copy Share Image
The magnificent cause of being, The imagination, the one reality In this imagined world — Wallace Stevens Copy Share Image
Imagination applied to the whole world is vapid in comparison to imagination applied to a detail. — Wallace Stevens Copy Share Image
The imagination is the power that enables us to perceive the normal in the abnormal, the opposite of chaos in chaos. — Wallace Stevens Copy Share Image
in the presence of extraordinary actuality, consciousness takes the place of imagination. — Wallace Stevens Copy Share Image
The imagination is the liberty of the mind It is intrpeid and eager and the extreme of its achievement lies in abstraction. — Wallace Stevens Copy Share Image
The imagination loses vitality as it ceases to adhere to what is real. When it adheres to the unreal and intensifies what… — Wallace Stevens Copy Share Image
The poet's function is to make his imagination . . . become the light in the mind of others. His role, in… — Wallace Stevens Copy Share Image
After the leaves have fallen, we return To a plain sense of things. It is as if We had come to an… — Wallace Stevens Copy Share Image
It is the imagination pressing back against the pressure of reality. It seems, in the last analysis, to have something to do… — Wallace Stevens Copy Share Image
To regard the imagination as metaphysics is to think of it as part of life, and to think of it as part… — Wallace Stevens Copy Share Image
The essential fault of surrealism is that it invents without discovering. To make a clam play an accordion is to invent not… — Wallace Stevens Copy Share Image
So, too, if, to our surprise, we should meet one of these morons whose remarks are so conspicuous a part of the… — Wallace Stevens Copy Share Image
“…the imagination gives to everything that it touches a peculiarity, and it seems to me that the peculiarity of the imagination is… — Wallace Stevens Copy Share Image
“The Plain Sense of Things" After the leaves have fallen, we return To a plain sense of things. It is as if… — Wallace Stevens Copy Share Image
Poet, patting more nonsense foamed From the sea, conceive for thecourts Of these academies, the diviner health Disclosed in common forms. — Wallace Stevens Copy Share
The way through the world is more difficult to find than the way beyond it. — Wallace Stevens Copy Share
The magnificent cause of being, The imagination, the one reality In this imagined world — Wallace Stevens Copy Share
Music falls on the silence like a sense / A passion that we feel, not understand. — Wallace Stevens Copy Share
After a lustre of the moon, we say We have not the need of any paradise, We have not the need of any seducing… — Wallace Stevens Copy Share
“We live in an old chaos of the sun, Or old dependency of day and night, Or island solitude, unsponsored, free, Of that wide… — Wallace Stevens Copy Share
“Lunar Paraphrase" The moon is the mother of pathos and pity. When, at the wearier end of November, Her old light moves along the… — Wallace Stevens Copy Share
“The stars are putting on their glittering belts, They throw around their shoulders cloaks that flash Like a great shadow's last embellishment” — wallace stevens Copy Share
Unfortunately there is nothing more inane than an Easter carol. It is a religious perversion of the activity of Spring in our blood. — Wallace Stevens Copy Share
A diary is more or less the work of a man of clay whose hands are clumsy and in whose eyes there is no… — Wallace Stevens Copy Share
