Wallace Stevens Quotes

Vision is perhaps our greatest strength... it has kept us alive to the power and continuity of thought through the centuries, it makes us peer into the future and lends shape to the unknown.

Imagination is the wide-open eye which leads us always to see truth more vividly.

An age is called Dark not because the light fails to shine, but because people refuse to see it.

Knowledge is love and light and vision.

Bright light is injurious to those who see nothing.

There is no such thing as darkness; only a failure to see.

Vision is the art of seeing things invisible.

I always felt that what is scary is actually hearing someone tell you what they think they see. That sense of invisibility makes things a lot scarier, since your imagination tends to fill in the gaps.

We believe what we see.’...What do you do when you’re in the dark?

Imagination comes from yourself and can deceive you, but vision is a gift from outside yourself - like light striking on your closed eyelids and lifting them to see what's really there.

What I give form to in daylight is only one per cent of what I have seen in darkness.

Let the ugly light of the world in, we are no longer blind.

The highest exercise of imagination is not to devise what has no existence, but rather to perceive what really exists, though unseen by the outward eye-not creation, but insight.

Art flies around truth, but with the definite intention of not getting burnt. Its capacity lies in finding in the dark void a place where the beam of light can be intensely caught, without this having been perceptible before.

Imagination is a very high sort of seeing, which does not come by study, but by the intellect being where and what it sees, by sharing the path, or circuits of things through forms, and so making them translucid to others.

When you are in the dark and you can't see anything, something is looking at you seeing everything

Vision is the art of seeing what is invisible to others.

A discerning eye needs only a hint, and understatement leaves the imagination free to build its own elaborations.

The mind loves the unknown. It loves images whose meaning is unknown, since the meaning of the mind itself is unknown.

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

The future is hidden by a dark impenetrable veil, and yet we struggle to pierce through it.

When I think of vision, I have in mind the ability to see above and beyond the majority.

Night hath a thousand eyes.

Reason is the natural order of truth; but imagination is the organ of meaning.

They who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night.