Wallace Stevens Quotes About Imagination

Quotes about: Imagination

• The imagination is one of the forces of nature.

  Wallace Stevens

  Imagination, Force, Forces Of Nature

  Wallace Stevens (1997). “Collected Poetry and Prose”

• It is the imagination pressing back against the pressure of reality. It seems, in the last analysis, to have something to do with our self-preservation; and that, no doubt, is why the expression of it, the sound of its words, helps us to live our lives.

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  Reality, Self, Expression

  Wallace Stevens (2011). “The Necessary Angel: Essays on Reality and the Imagination”, p.36, Vintage

• 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 its first effect may be extraordinary, that effect is the maximum effect that it will ever have.

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  Real, Imagination, Vitality

  Wallace Stevens (2011). “The Necessary Angel: Essays on Reality and the Imagination”, p.6, Vintage

• The imagination is man's power over nature.

  Wallace Stevens

  Men, Imagination, Creative

  Wallace Stevens (2011). “Opus Posthumous: Poems, Plays, Prose”, p.260, Vintage

• in the presence of extraordinary actuality, consciousness takes the place of imagination.

  Wallace Stevens

  Imagination, Consciousness, Extraordinary

  Wallace Stevens, Holly Stevens (1966). “Letters of Wallace Stevens”, p.411, Univ of California Press

• We say God and the imagination are one... How high that highest candle lights the dark.

  Wallace Stevens

  Dark, Light, Imagination

  Wallace Stevens, Holly Stevens (1966). “Letters of Wallace Stevens”, p.701, Univ of California Press

• 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.

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  Fall, Autumn, Imagination

  Wallace Stevens (2011). “The Palm at the End of the Mind: Selected Poems and a Play”, p.469, Vintage

• God and the imagination are one.

  Wallace Stevens

  Imagination, Candle Lights, Candle

  Wallace Stevens (2011). “Selected Poems”, p.295, Knopf

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

  Wallace Stevens

  Real, Imagination, Vitality

  Wallace Stevens (2011). “The Necessary Angel: Essays on Reality and the Imagination”, p.6, Vintage

• Imagination is the power of the mind over the possibilities of things.

  Wallace Stevens

  Imagination, Mind, Possibility

  Wallace Stevens (2011). “The Necessary Angel: Essays on Reality and the Imagination”, p.136, Vintage

• 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

  Whales, Imagination, Brain

  Wallace Stevens (2011). “The Necessary Angel: Essays on Reality and the Imagination”, p.74, Vintage

• 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 observation of the unconscious, so far as it can be observed, should reveal things of which we have previously been unconscious, not the familiar things of which we have been conscious plus imagination.

  Wallace Stevens

  Play, Imagination, Essentials

  Wallace Stevens (2011). “Opus Posthumous: Poems, Plays, Prose”, p.259, Vintage

• Imagination...is the irrepressible revolutionist.

  Wallace Stevens

  Imagination, Irrepressible

• The imagination is the power that enables us to perceive the normal in the abnormal, the opposite of chaos in chaos.

  Wallace Stevens

  Opposites, Imagination, Abnormal

  Wallace Stevens (2011). “The Necessary Angel: Essays on Reality and the Imagination”, p.153, Vintage

• 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.

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  Light, People, Imagination

  Wallace Stevens (2011). “The Necessary Angel: Essays on Reality and the Imagination”, p.29, Vintage

• 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

  Life, Thinking, Imagination

  Wallace Stevens (1997). “Collected Poetry and Prose”

• The magnificent cause of being,
  The imagination, the one reality
  In this imagined world.

  Wallace Stevens

  Reality, Imagination, World

  Wallace Stevens (2012). “The Emperor of Ice-Cream and Other Poems”, p.66, Courier Corporation

• Imagination applied to the whole world is vapid in comparison to imagination applied to a detail.

  Wallace Stevens

  Imagination, Vapid, Details

  Wallace Stevens (2011). “Opus Posthumous: Poems, Plays, Prose”, p.256, Vintage

• Imagination is the will of things. . . .

  Wallace Stevens

  Imagination

  Wallace Stevens (2012). “The Emperor of Ice-Cream and Other Poems”, p.58, Courier Corporation

• The imagination is the liberty of the mind It is intrpeid and eager and the extreme of its achievement lies in abstraction.

  Wallace Stevens

  Lying, Imagination, Achievement

• The death of Satan was a tragedy
  For the imagination.

  Wallace Stevens

  Imagination, Tragedy, Satan

  Wallace Stevens (2011). “The Collected Poems of Wallace Stevens”, p.319, Vintage

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