"The imagination is man’s power over nature." ― Wallace Stevens Topic(s): Imagination More From Wallace Stevens "Everything is complicated; if that were not so, life and poetry and everything else would be a bore." "A poem need not have a meaning and like most things in nature often does not have." "In the world of words, the imagination is one of the forces of nature." More In Imagination "Vulgarity begins when imagination succumbs to the explicit."― Doris Day "Imagination is as good as many voyages – and how much cheaper!"― George William Curtis "It is usually the imagination that is wounded first, rather than the heart; it being much more sensitive."― Henry David Thoreau