"In the world of words, the imagination is one of the forces of nature."
― Wallace Stevens
Topic(s):
Imagination
More From Wallace Stevens
- "In poetry, you must love the words, the ideas and the images and rhythms with all your capacity to love anything at all."
- "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."
- "Intolerance respecting other people’s religion is toleration itself in comparison with intolerance respecting other people’s art."
More In Imagination
- "Today mythical thinking has fallen into disrepute; we often dismiss it as irrational and self-indulgent. But the imagination is also the faculty that has enabled scientists to bring new knowledge to light and to invent technology that has made us immeasurably more effective."― Karen Armstrong
- "I was the first woman ever named Entertainer of the Year in country music."― Loretta Lynn
- "The lunatic, the lover, and the poet, are of imagination all compact."― William Shakespeare