Wallace Stevens Quote

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.


'Three Academic Pieces', no. 1 (1947)


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....

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....

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....

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....