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Quote by Wallace Stevens
The imagination is mans power over nature. - Wallace Stevens

The imagination is mans power over nature. – Wallace Stevens

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In poetry, you must love the words, the ideas and the images and rhythms with all your capacity to love anything at all. – Wallace Stevens

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Poetry
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Wallace Stevens
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Most people read poetry listening for echoes because the echoes are familiar to them. They wade through it the way a boy wades through water, feeling with his toes for the bottom: The echoes are the bottom. – Wallace Stevens

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Poetry
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It is not that the child lives in a world of imagination, but that the child within us survives and starts into life only at rare moments of recollection, which makes us believe, and it is not true, that, as children, we were imaginative? – Cesare Pavese

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Imagination

Another side to me is this very sexual being. When I look back on my life, its always been there. Its been there since I was 10 years old, having the imagination that I had. – Janet Jackson

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Imagination

Writing a novel is not merely going on a shopping expedition across the border to an unreal land: it is hours and years spent in the factories, the streets, the cathedrals of the imagination. – Janet Frame

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Imagination

It is usually the imagination that is wounded first, rather than the heart it being much more sensitive. – Henry David Thoreau

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Imagination

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