Explore more quotes by Wallace Stevens

"After the final no there comes a yes and on that yes the future of the world hangs."

Future, World

"Death is the mother of Beauty; hence from her, alone, shall come fulfillment to our dreams and our desires."

Death, Dreams, Mother, Beauty

"Everything is complicated; if that were not so, life and poetry and everything else would be a bore."

Life, Poetry

"How full of trifles everything is! It is only one's thoughts that fill a room with something more than furniture."

Thought, Thoughts, Trifles

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

Beauty,

"One's ignorance is one's chief asset."

Ignorance,

"The fire burns as the novel taught it how."

Fire,

"Perhaps it is of more value to infuriate philosophers than to go along with them."

Value,

"One cannot spend one's time in being modern when there are so many more important things to be."

Time, Being

"Style is not something applied. It is something that permeates. It is of the nature of that in which it is found, whether the poem, the manner of a god, the bearing of a man. It is not a dress."

Nature, God, Dress, Man

Exlpore more Imagination quotes

"The man who has no imagination has no wings."

Muhammad Ali, American Athlete

Imagination, Man

"Science does not know its debt to imagination."

Ralph Waldo Emerson, American Poet

Imagination, Science, Debt

"Belief in the supernatural reflects a failure of the imagination."

Edward Abbey, American Author

Imagination, Belief, Failure, Supernatural

"Having imagination it takes you an hour to write a paragraph that if you were unimaginative would take you only a minute."

Franklin P. Adams, American Journalist

Imagination,

"Isn't it enough to see that a garden is beautiful without having to believe that there are fairies at the bottom of it too?"

Douglas Adams, English Writer

Imagination, Fairies, Garden

"My country has contrived for me the most insignificant office that ever the invention of man contrived or his imagination conceived."

John Adams, American President

Imagination, Country, Invention, Man

"Everything that is new or uncommon raises a pleasure in the imagination, because it fills the soul with an agreeable surprise, gratifies its curiosity, and gives it an idea of which it was not before possessed."

Joseph Addison, English Writer

Imagination, Soul, Idea, Curiosity

"I like to have a thing suggested rather than told in full. When every detail is given, the mind rests satisfied, and the imagination loses the desire to use its own wings."

Thomas Bailey Aldrich, American Poet

Imagination, Desire, Detail, Mind

"The Polar Express is about faith, and the power of imagination to sustain faith. It's also about the desire to reside in a world where magic can happen, the kind of world we all believed in as children, but one that disappears as we grow older."

Chris Van Allsburg, American Author

Imagination, Power, Faith, Children

"At first, I see pictures of a story in my mind. Then creating the story comes from asking questions of myself. I guess you might call it the 'what if - what then' approach to writing and illustration."

Chris Van Allsburg, American Author

Imagination, First, Mind, Questions, Writing