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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

Other quotes by Wallace Stevens

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

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Religion
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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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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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Other Quotes from
Imagination
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All the best have something in common, a regard for reality, an agreement to its primacy over the imagination. – Wislawa Szymborska

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Imagination

I was brought up in a very open, rural countryside in the middle of nowhere. There were no cell phones. If your lights went out, you were lit by candlelight for a good four days before they can get to you. And so, my imagination was crazy. – Juno Temple

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Imagination

I am an actor and I live in the world of pretend in my working capacity. I live in the world of my imagination. – Derek Jacobi

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Imagination

The peculiar fascination which the South held over my imagination and my limited capital decided me in favor of Atlanta University so about the last of September I bade farewell to the friends and scenes of my boyhood and boarded a train for the South. – James Weldon Johnson

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Imagination

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