Daily Inspiration Quote by Luigi Pirandello

Pirandello’s line flatters the human mind, then quietly demotes it. “Nature uses” is the provocation: imagination isn’t a sovereign power but a tool enlisted by something older and indifferent. It’s a sly reversal of Romantic ego. We like to picture ourselves as the authors of meaning; Pirandello frames us as Nature’s contractors, hired to extend the job of creation when raw biology hits its limits.

The phrase “lift her work” gives Nature a feminine pronoun and an artisan’s pride, but it also reads like a stage direction. As a playwright obsessed with masks, doubled selves, and the instability of identity (Six Characters in Search of an Author is basically a manifesto for unruly creation), Pirandello treats imagination as a force that manufactures realities as persuasive as facts. That’s the subtext: our fictions aren’t escapes from nature; they’re continuations of it, evolutionary upgrades disguised as art.

Context matters. Writing in early 20th-century Italy, with Darwinism in the air, Freud unsettling the idea of a unified self, and modernity shredding inherited certainties, Pirandello is trying to explain why humans can’t stop making stories even when stories destabilize us. Imagination becomes nature’s way of prototyping new forms: laws, gods, nations, selves. The intent isn’t to celebrate creativity as pure freedom, but to show its darker efficiency. Nature doesn’t just grow bodies; through us, she grows narratives that can reorganize whole societies, for better or worse.