Wallace Stevens

"The past has ceased to exist except in the mind."

"We create meaning through the act of naming."

"To perceive a thing is already to alter it."

"The world needs more awareness of the sacred in the ordinary."

"One's life is defined by the depth of one's interior world."

"The imagination is the instrument that measures our growth."

"Reality is always less satisfying than fiction."

"We seek not truth but the appearance of truth."

"The self emerges from the collision of desire and circumstance."

"To understand art is to understand the artist's vision of the world."

"Happiness lies in the fullness of sensation."

"The world as imagined is more real than the world as given."

"One cannot live without some form of belief, even in fictions."

"The courage to imagine is the first courage."

"We are perpetually becoming something other than what we were."

"The mind makes what it beholds."

"Beauty is the evidence that life is worth living."

"To create is to impose order on chaos."

"The world is a stage where consciousness performs itself."

"Poetry reveals what prose merely states."

"We are all fragments seeking to become whole."

"The imagination is the eye of the soul."

"In solitude, one discovers one's truest self."

"Reality is the product of continuous creative effort."

"The greatest art asks us to question what we believe to be true."

"The mind is the greatest thing we possess, and we must learn to use it wisely."

"In the absence of belief, we must create our own meaning."

"The world is not what we think it is; it is what we imagine it to be."

"Poetry is the supreme fiction by which we live."

"We live in the mind as much as we live in the world."