Quote by Wallace Stevens
To regard the imagination as metaphysics is to think of it as part

To regard the imagination as metaphysics is to think of it as part of life, and to think of it as part of life is to realize the extent of artifice. We live in the mind. – Wallace Stevens

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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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My life has been a gift up to this point, and Ive been blessed beyond my wildest imagination. And wherever this ride takes me is where Im going. – Sean Hannity

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To think creatively, we must be able to look afresh at what we normally take for granted. – George Kneller

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Imagination is a beast that has to be put in a cage. – Timothy Spall

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I write from my imagination, not from what Ive read in books or seen on TV or to make money. I wrote from an idea I was passionate about. – Dirk Benedict

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