Imagination Quote by Wallace Stevens Download Open image “The imagination loses vitality as it ceases to adhere to what is real.” — Wallace Stevens ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.4 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare Imagination Real Vitality
The imagination loses vitality as it ceases to adhere to what is real. When it adheres to the unreal and intensifies what is unreal,… — Wallace Stevens Copy Share Image
Imagination is not something apart and hermetic, not a way of leaving reality behind; it is a way of engaging reality. — Irving Howe Copy Share Image
Imagination does not become great until human beings, given the courage and the strength, use it to create. — Maria Montessori Copy Share Image
Imagination is one of our most useful and pleasurable cognitive tools, but it is not perfect. It extends our reach away from the present,… — Bryan Johnson Copy Share Image
For after the subject is removed or the eye shut, we still retain an image of the things seen, though more obscure than when… — Thomas Hobbes Copy Share Image
Imagination disposes of everything; it creates beauty, justice, and happiness, which are everything in this world. — Blaise Pascal 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 Image
The way through the world is more difficult to find than the way beyond it. — Wallace Stevens Copy Share Image
The magnificent cause of being, The imagination, the one reality In this imagined world — Wallace Stevens Copy Share Image
Music falls on the silence like a sense / A passion that we feel, not understand. — Wallace Stevens Copy Share Image
The life of the city never lets you go, nor do you ever want it to. — Wallace Stevens Copy Share Image
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 Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
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 Image
Social responsibility above the level of family, or at most of tribe, requires imagination-- devotion, loyalty, all the higher virtues -- which a man… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
In literature and art memory is a synonym for invention. It is the life-blood of imagination, which faints and dies when the veins are… — Robert Aris Willmott Copy Share Image
A rock pile ceases to be a rock pile the moment a single man contemplates it, bearing within him the image of a cathedral. — Antoine de Saint-Exupery Copy Share Image
Merkel has realized that the euro is not working, but she cannot change the narrative she has created because that narrative has caught the… — George Soros Copy Share Image
Jonah Lehrer is one of the most talented explainers of science that we’ve got. What a pleasure it is to follow his investigation of… — Joshua Foer Copy Share Image
If you've got creativity, imagination, and intelligence, and you want to be hypnotised, then there's no reason you shouldn't be able to. — Keith Barry Copy Share Image
A beard is something that is almost like a mirror to the viewer. When someone sees you wearing a beard, they're seeing something in… — Mohsin Hamid Copy Share Image
While the world of reality has its limits, the world of your imagination is without boundaries — Wayne Dyer Copy Share Image
Edgy is fine - I'm not a prude by any stretch of the imagination - but what's wrong with a good ol' belly laugh?… — Carol Burnett Copy Share Image