“Poetry is the shadow cast by our imaginations.”
Lawrence Ferlinghetti (1919) American artist, writer and activist
These Are My Rivers: New & Selected Poems, 1955-1993 (New Directions) ISBN: 0-0112-1273-4 0-0112-1252-1
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Do you have more details about the quote "Our imagination flies -- we are its shadow on the earth." by Vladimir Nabokov?
Vladimir Nabokov193
Russian-American novelist, lepidopterist, professor 1899–1977Related quotes
Philip José Farmer (1918–2009) American science fiction writer
"Imagination" in America Sings (1949); re-published in Pearls From Peoria (2006)
Viktor Schauberger (1885–1958) austrian philosopher and inventor
Callum Coats: Water Wizard
Callum Coats: Water Wizard
Variant: "Our primeval Mother Earth is an organism that no science in the world can rationalize. Everything on her that crawls and flies is dependent upon Her and all must hopelessly perish if that Earth dies that feeds us." (Callum Coats: Water Wizard)
“There are no shadows anywhere.
The earth, for us, is flat and bare.
There are no shadows.”
Wallace Stevens (1879–1955) American poet
The Man With the Blue Guitar (1937)
Context: Do not speak to us of the greatness of poetry,
Of the torches wisping in the underground,
Of the structure of vaults upon a point of light.
There are no shadows in our sun,
Day is desire and night is sleep.
There are no shadows anywhere.
The earth, for us, is flat and bare.
There are no shadows.
Alexis De Tocqueville book Democracy in America
Book Three, Chapter XI.
Democracy in America, Volume II (1840), Book Three
“We are all on earth to help others. What on earth the others are here for, I can't imagine.”
W. H. Auden (1907–1973) Anglo-American poet
Often cited as by Auden without attribution, this quotation has been traced to John Foster Hall (1867-1945), an English comedian known as the Reverend Vivian Foster, Vicar of Mirth. Full history with sound recording http://audensociety.org/vivianfoster.html <br class="br">Misattributed
Vanna Bonta (1958–2014) Italian-American writer, poet, inventor, actress, voice artist (1958-2014)
The Universe - Sex in Space (2008)
“Love is a trap. When it appears, we see only its light, not its shadows.”
Paulo Coelho book By the River Piedra I Sat Down and Wept
Source: By the River Piedra I Sat Down and Wept
Ferdinand Magellan (1480–1521) Portuguese explorer
This quotation is often found on the internet attributed to Magellan, but never with a source, and no English occurrence prior to its use by Robert Green Ingersoll in his essay "Individuality" http://www.infidels.org/library/historical/robert_ingersoll/individuality.html (1873) has been located. Thus, it it most likely spurious. In that essay Ingersoll states:<br>It is a blessed thing that in every age some one has had individuality enough and courage enough to stand by his own convictions, — some one who had the grandeur to say his say. I believe it was Magellan who said, "The church says the earth is flat; but I have seen its shadow on the moon, and I have more confidence even in a shadow than in the church." On the prow of his ship were disobedience, defiance, scorn, and success. <br class="br">Disputed <br class="br">Variant: The Church says that the Earth is Flat, but I know that it is Round. For I have seen its Shadow on the Moon and I have more Faith in a Shadow than in the Church. <br class="br">Source: As quoted in Oxford Academic (25 July 2013) http://oupacademic.tumblr.com/post/56463634957/misquotation-i-have-seen-the-shadow-of-the-earth <br>