Quotes by Imagination We say God and the imagination are one... How high that highest candle lights the dark. Wallace Stevens lightimaginationdark The imagination loses vitality as it ceases to adhere to what is real. Wallace Stevens vitalityrealimagination The imagination is man's power over nature. Wallace Stevens creativeimaginationmen in the presence of extraordinary actuality, consciousness takes the place of imagination. Wallace Stevens extraordinaryconsciousnessimagination The imagination is the liberty of the mind It is intrpeid and eager and the extreme of its achievement lies in abstraction. Wallace Stevens achievementimaginationlying God and the imagination are one. Wallace Stevens candle-lightscandleimagination 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 imagination, Inanimate in an inert savoir. Wallace Stevens autumnimaginationfall Yet magic is no more than the art of employing consciously invisible means to produce visible effects. Will, love and imagination are magic powers that everyone possesses; and whoever knows how to develop them to their fullest extent is a magician. Magic has but one dogma, namely, that the seen is the measure of the unseen. W. Somerset Maugham imaginationmeanart 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 to realize the extent of artifice. We live in the mind. Wallace Stevens imaginationlifethinking The poet's function is to make his imagination . . . become the light in the mind of others. His role, in short, is to help people to live their lives. Wallace Stevens lightimaginationpeople Imagination is the will of things. . . . Wallace Stevens imagination The death of Satan was a tragedy Wallace Stevens satantragedyimagination Worry is a waste of imagination. Walt Disney wasteimaginationworry That's what we storytellers do. We restore order with imagination. We instill hope again and again and again. Walt Disney storytellerimaginationorder The magnificent cause of being, Wallace Stevens imaginationrealityworld Imagination...is the irrepressible revolutionist. Wallace Stevens irrepressibleimagination So, too, if, to our surprise, we should meet one of these morons whose remarks are so conspicuous a part of the folklore of the world of the radio--remarks made without using either the tongue or the brain, spouted much like the spoutings of small whales--we should recognize him as below the level of nature but not as below the level of the imagination. Wallace Stevens whalesimaginationbrain Imagination is the power of the mind over the possibilities of things. Wallace Stevens possibilityimaginationmind It is often said that men are ruled by their imaginations; but it would be truer to say they are governed by the weakness of their imaginations. Walter Bagehot weaknessimaginationmen I can never stand still. I must explore and experiment. I am never satisfied with my work. I resent the limitations of my own imagination. Walt Disney satisfiedimaginationlife«156157158159160161162163164165166»
