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Quote by Wallace Stevens
The imagination loses vitality as it ceases to adhere to what is real.
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The quote says that imagination grows weaker when it loses contact with reality. Creative ideas need some connection to real things, experiences, or conditions to remain vivid and meaningful. It does not reject fantasy; it suggests that imagination becomes less lively when it has no firm reality to engage with.
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- The Wallace Stevens Journal
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