"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
Topic(s):
Imagination
More From Wallace Stevens
- "The day of the sun is like the day of a king. It is a promenade in the morning, a sitting on the throne at noon, a pageant in the evening."
- "In poetry, you must love the words, the ideas and the images and rhythms with all your capacity to love anything at all."
- "If poetry should address itself to the same needs and aspirations, the same hopes and fears, to which the Bible addresses itself, it might rival it in distribution."
More In Imagination
- "The photograph reverses the purpose of travel, which until now had been to encounter the strange and unfamiliar."― Marshall McLuhan
- "The costume that I wear on the show is a little snug and doesn’t leave a whole lot to the imagination. I don’t have a problem with it because of the way this character’s been written."― Jeri Ryan
- "I think in general, romantic comedies tend to take one person’s point of view, but every once in a while you get something that is balanced for two people."― Sandra Bullock