The humble are they that move about the world with the lure of the real in their hearts.

Stevens often contrasts imagination with “the real,” treating humility not as self-effacement but as a disciplined attentiveness to what exists beyond one’s wishes or theories. In this line, “the humble” are those who move through life guided by an inward attraction (“lure”) toward actuality—toward things as they are, not as they are rhetorically inflated, idealized, or mythologized. The phrase suggests an ethical-aesthetic posture: to be humble is to let reality exert its pull, to remain corrigible, and to accept the world’s resistance to our private fictions. The heart’s “lure of the real” implies that such humility is not mere rational assent but a felt commitment.