Dan Simmons Quotes about Reality

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Poets are the mad midwives to reality. They see not what is, nor what can be, but what must become.

Poets are the mad midwives to reality. They see not what is, nor what can be, but what must become.

Dan Simmons

Reality, Mad, Poet

Dan Simmons (2014). “The Hyperion Cantos 4-Book Bundle: Hyperion, The Fall of Hyperion, Endymion, The Rise of Endymion”, p.238, Spectra

The future is like smoke from a burning forest, waiting for the wind of specific events and personal courage to blow the sparks and embers of reality this way or that.

Dan Simmons

Blow, Reality, Wind

"The Rise of Endymion". Book by Dan Simmons, published by Bantam Spectra, Chapter 25 (pp. 535-536), 1997.

His imagination was always more real than the reality of daily life.

Dan Simmons

Real, Reality, Imagination

Words bend our thinking to infinite paths of self-delusion, and the fact that we spend most of our mental lives in brain mansions built of words means that we lack the objectivity necessary to see the terrible distortion of reality which language brings.

Dan Simmons

Mean, Reality, Thinking

Dan Simmons (2014). “The Hyperion Cantos 4-Book Bundle: Hyperion, The Fall of Hyperion, Endymion, The Rise of Endymion”, p.236, Spectra