Saturday, March 10, 2007

Imagination

The imagination loses vitality as it ceases to adhere to what is real. When it adheres to the unreal and intensifies what is unreal, while its first effect may be extraordinary, that effect is the maximum effect that it will ever have.

(Wallace Stevens)

1 comment:

Elliot said...

Hmm. That strikes me as profound. It explains some fantasy books I've read. Not to mention some non-fiction.