Cease Quote by Wallace Stevens

The imagination loses vitality as it ceases to adhere to what is real.

— Wallace Stevens

I like to have a thing suggested rather than told in full. When every detail is given, the mind rests satisfied, and the imagination…

— Thomas Bailey Aldrich

“... unreal things have a reality of their own, in poetry as elsewhere.”

— Wallace Stevens

New York is a field of tireless and antagonistic interests undoubtedly fascinating but horribly unreal. Everybody is looking at everybody else a foolish crowd…

— Wallace Stevens

Metaphor creates a new reality from which the original appears to be unreal.

— Wallace Stevens

Everybody is looking at everybody else a foolish crowd walking on mirrors.

— Wallace Stevens

The abstract, unreal freedom of the liberal intellect was really nothing more than childish disobedience, amplified into anarchy.

— Roger Scruton

[Composers] Mark [Shaiman] and Scott [Wittman] are unreal

— Megan Hilty

Since things neither exist nor do not exist, are neither real nor unreal, are utterly beyond adopting and rejecting - one might as well…

— Anonymous

No sane person wants hell to exist. No sane person wants evil to exist. But hell is just evil eternalized. If there is evil…

— Peter Kreeft

Any great and inspiring leader or organization that ever existed set out to do something completely unrealistic.

— Simon Sinek

the wide discrepancy between reason and feeling may be unreal; it is not improbable that intellect is a high form of feeling - a…

— Susanne Katherina Langer

Since the past is unreal and the future is unreal, all your thoughts are about nothing.

— Byron Katie

We take that which is unreal to be real and that which is real to be unreal.

— Rupert Spira

failure in the theater is more public, more brilliant, more unreal than in any other field.

— Lillian Hellman