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The imagination is mans power over nature. - Wallace Stevens

The imagination is mans power over nature. – Wallace Stevens

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I do not know which to prefer, The beauty of inflections, Or the beauty of innuendoes, The blackbird whistling, Or just after. – Wallace Stevens

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Beauty
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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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All the great things have been denied and we live in an intricacy of new and local mythologies, political, economic, poetic, which are asserted with an ever-enlarging incoherence. – Wallace Stevens

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Myths, Mythology
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Other Quotes from
Imagination
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Every view, and every object I studied attentively, by viewing them again and again on every side, for I was anxious to make a lasting impression of it on my imagination. – Karl Philipp Moritz

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Imagination

A writer should have the precision of a poet and the imagination of a scientist. – Vladimir Nabokov

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Imagination

I think if youre a competent actor with a good imagination, and if its on the page, it makes your job a lot easier. – Miguel Ferrer

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Imagination

You will certainly not doubt the necessity of studying astronomy and physics, if you are desirous of comprehending the relation between the world and Providence as it is in reality, and not according to imagination. – Maimonides

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Imagination

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