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

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

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Poetry
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Those Dutchmen had hardly any imagination or fantasy, but their good taste and their scientific knowledge of composition were enormous. – Vincent Van Gogh

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Imagination

The Chinese art world does not exist. In a society that restricts individual freedoms and violates human rights, anything that calls itself creative or independent is a pretence. It is impossible for a totalitarian society to create anything with passion and imagination. – Ai Weiwei

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Imagination

My reality needs imagination like a bulb needs a socket. My imagination needs reality like a blind man needs a cane. – Tom Waits

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Imagination

Nowadays peoples visual imagination is so much more sophisticated, so much more developed, particularly in young people, that now you can make an image which just slightly suggests something, they can make of it what they will. – Robert Doisneau

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Imagination

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Bullets cannot be recalled. They cannot be uninvented. But they can be taken out of the gun. – Martin Amis

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Peace

It is, I claim, nonsense to say that it does not matter which individual man acted as the nucleus for the change. It is precisely this that makes history unpredictable into the future. – Gregory Bateson

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Future

Even very young children need to be informed about dying. Explain the concept of death very carefully to your child. This will make threatening him with it much more effective. – P. J. ORourke

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Death

The dog may be wonderful prose, but only the cat is poetry. – French Proverb

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Cats