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Rita Dove

"Without imagination we can go nowhere. And imagination is not restricted to the arts. Every scientist I have met who has been a success has had to imagine."

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"Without imagination we can go nowhere. And imagination is not restricted to the arts. Every scientist I have met who has been a success has had to imagine."

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"What if dragons breathed bubbles and purred when they cuddled and giggled at chivalrous knights for their troubles?What if dragons felt soft, having scales made of cloth,and they moved rather slow like a brown-throated sloth?What if dragons were shyand did easily crywhen confronted by characters callous and sly?What if dragons did goodbut were misunderstoodso men mercilessly slew the beasts right where they stood?What if dragons aren't missedbecause there is no listof extinct types of quarry that now don't exist?"

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"Considering Adrian had once gotten bored while reading while reading a particularly long menu, I had a hard time imagining he'd read the Hugo book in any language."

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"But then again, if you don't imagine, nothing ever happens at all. Imagining isn't perfect. You can't get all the way inside someone else. I could never have imagined Margo's anger at being found, or the story she was writing over. But imagining being someone else, or the world being something else, is the only way in."

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Amber Hurdle

"In my reality all the mosquitoes are vampires and all fireflies are dragons."

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"If I wholly unleash my imagination and forcefully stretch it out beyond its own edges, even at such a point I can only imagine a thin shard of this most immense God. And even though it is but a thin shard, it will nonetheless be mesmerizingly colossal."

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Amber Hurdle

"Do you have vivid picture of your visions in your mind?"

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"We are blessed with a finite life, but our imaginations are infinite."

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Amber Hurdle

"It is not in the gene of an Intellectually blinded person to experience the paradise in the writer's imagination."

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"You are only limited by your imagination."

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"There are lots of people who mistake their imagination for their memory."

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"Rap is only one end of a whole spectrum of verbal play and virtuosity. Rap is geared for aural pleasure."
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"Going to the library was the one place we got to go without asking for permission. And they let us choose what we wanted to read. It was a feeling of having a book be mine entirely."
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"For many years, I thought a poem was a whisper overheard, not an aria heard."
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"Being Poet Laureate made me realize I was capable of a larger voice. There is a more public utterance I can make as a poet."
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"I thought, after the Pulitzer, at least nothing will surprise me quite that much in my life. And another one happened. It was quite amazing."
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"One definition of eternity is that we are not alone on this planet, that there are those who've gone before and those who will come, and that there is a community of spirits."
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"The sound of the mandolin is a very curious sound because it's cheerful and melancholy at the same time, and I think it comes from that shadow string, the double strings."
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"I carry a notebook with me everywhere. But that's only the first step."
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"I think reading Shakespeare's plays when I was young was extremely important. He had the ability to make utter strangers come alive."
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