“The first idea is an imagined thing.”
Wallace Stevens (1879–1955) American poet
Notes Toward a Supreme Fiction (1942), It Must Be Abstract
“The first idea is an imagined thing.”
Wallace Stevens (1879–1955) American poet
Notes Toward a Supreme Fiction (1942), It Must Be Abstract
“Violence requires few ideas, but nonviolence requires imagination.”
Mark Kurlansky (1948) American journalist
1968: The Year That Rocked the World
“Jesus could not have imagined such an idea as Albert Einstein's theory of relativity.”
John Shelby Spong (1931) American bishop
Source: Rescuing the Bible from Fundamentalism (1991), p. 25
Lionel Trilling book The Liberal Imagination
The Function of the Little Magazine
The Liberal Imagination (1950)
Mitt Romney (1947) American businessman and politician
In response to the question, "How would you run against Hillary and Bill Clinton in November?", MSNBC, Republican Presidential Candidate Debate, FL, 2007-01-25
2007 campaign for Republican nomination for United States President
“I just can’t imagine being in a world and not being fascinated with what ideas are doing to us.”
Ray Bradbury (1920–2012) American writer
The Paris Review interview (2010)