"We say God and the imagination are one... How high that highest candle lights the dark."

Imagination, God

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"We say God and the imagination are one... How high that highest candle lights the dark."

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"Most people read poetry listening for echoes because the echoes are familiar to them. They wade through it the way a boy wades through water, feeling with his toes for the bottom: The echoes are the bottom."

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"In the world of words, the imagination is one of the forces of nature."

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"The imagination is man's power over nature."

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"The genuine artist is never "true to life." He sees what is real, but not as we are normally aware of it. We do not go storming through life like actors in a play. Art is never real life."

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"Everything is complicated; if that were not so, life and poetry and everything else would be a bore."

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"Style is not something applied. It is something that permeates. It is of the nature of that in which it is found, whether the poem, the manner of a god, the bearing of a man. It is not a dress."

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"Perhaps it is of more value to infuriate philosophers than to go along with them."

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"Accuracy of observation is the equivalent of accuracy of thinking."

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"If some really acute observer made as much of egotism as Freud has made of sex, people would forget a good deal about sex and find the explanation for everything in egotism."

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"The complete recipe for imagination is absolute boredom."

Criss Jami, American Philosopher

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"What the future held for spirit, Emily could only imagine."

S. A. Tawks, British Author

Imagination, Future, Dream, Possibility

"Do you know what the best and worst thing about a book is? The author can't answer all your questions, only your imagination can."

S. A. Tawks, British Author

Imagination, Books, Curiosity, Creativity

"Sci-fi opens the way in mind for the new science."

Toba Beta, Indonesian Author

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"When you are very rational, you may not be able to dream or live in a fairy tale."

Debasish Mridha, American Author

Imagination, Rationality, Dreaming, Reality

"O, then I see Queen Mab hath been with you. . . .She is the fairies' midwife, and she comesIn shape no bigger than an agate stoneOn the forefinger of an alderman,Drawn with a team of little atomiAthwart men's noses as they lie asleep."

William Shakespeare, English Dramatist

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"And when he invented his hell, that was his heaven on earth."

Friedrich Nietzsche, German Philosopher

Imagination, Heaven, Hell, Truth

"The words we construct, the poems we write and the songs we sing, become the love story of a stranger we have never seen."

M.F. Moonzajer, Afghan Author

Imagination, Love, Word, Creativity, Emotion

"Music enables mind to compose things in the outer limit of logic."

Toba Beta, Indonesian Author

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"When the imagination takes over, the second hand could be the hour hand to a creator of stories."

S. A. Tawks, British Author

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