Quote by Wallace Stevens
We say God and the imagination are one... How high that highest ca

We say God and the imagination are one… How high that highest candle lights the dark. – Wallace Stevens

Other quotes by Wallace Stevens

It is the unknown that excites the ardor of scholars, who, in the known alone, would shrivel up with boredom. – Wallace Stevens

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alone
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Everything is complicated if that were not so, life and poetry and everything else would be a bore. – Wallace Stevens

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Intolerance respecting other peoples religion is toleration itself in comparison with intolerance respecting other peoples art. – Wallace Stevens

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To imagine is everything, to know is nothing at all. – Anatole France

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Imagination

With the brush we merely tint, while the imagination alone produces colour. – Theodore Gericault

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Creative minds have always been known to survive any kind of bad training. – Anna Freud

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Imagination

I feel like Im a much better person when Im developing my imagination and my innocence and my vulnerability. I like that version of me better than the version where Im just working on my analytical mind. – Brit Marling

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Imagination

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