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Imagination Quotes by Wallace Stevens
- To regard the imagination as metaphysics is to think of it as part of life, and to think of it as part of life is…
- The imagination loses vitality as it ceases to adhere to what is real. When it adheres to the unreal and intensifies what is unreal, while…
- Imagination applied to the whole world is vapid in comparison to imagination applied to a detail.
- The imagination is the liberty of the mind It is intrpeid and eager and the extreme of its achievement lies in abstraction.
- Imagination is the power of the mind over the possibilities of things.
- The essential fault of surrealism is that it invents without discovering. To make a clam play an accordion is to invent not to discover. The…
- The imagination is man's power over nature.
- We say God and the imagination are one... How high that highest candle lights the dark.
- After the leaves have fallen, we return To a plain sense of things. It is as if We had come to an end of the…
- in the presence of extraordinary actuality, consciousness takes the place of imagination.
- God and the imagination are one.
- The imagination loses vitality as it ceases to adhere to what is real.
More Imagination Quotes
- To bring anything into your life, imagine that it's already there. — Richard Bach
- Aptitude found in the understanding and is often inherited. Genius coming from reason and imagination, rarely. — Marcus Aurelius
- A lady's imagination is very rapid; it jumps from admiration to love, from love to matrimony in a moment. — Jane Austen
- What wild imaginations one forms where dear self is concerned! How sure to be mistaken! — Jane Austen
- Imagination is the highest kite one can fly. — Lauren Bacall
- Imagination was given to man to compensate him for what he is not; a sense of humor to console him for what… — Francis Bacon
- They are ill discoverers that think there is no land, when they can see nothing but sea. — Francis Bacon
- It takes a lot of imagination to be a good photographer. You need less imagination to be a painter because you can… — David Bailey