"Can we only love Something created in our own imaginations?"
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"Imagination is not a talent of some men but is the health of every man."
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"A reason I became a writer was to escape the hopelessness and despair of the real world and enter the world of hope I could create with my imagination."
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"We are the miracle of force and matter making itself over into imagination and will."
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"Imagination has the creative task of making symbols, joining things together in such a way that they throw new light on each other and on everything around them. The imagination is a discovering faculty, a faculty for seeing relationships, for seeing meanings that are special and even quite new."
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"The imagination should be allowed a certain amount of time to browse around."
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"I tell my students one of the most important things they need to know is when they are at their best, creatively. They need to ask themselves, What does the ideal room look like? Is there music? Is there silence? Is there chaos outside or is there serenity outside? What do I need in order to release my imagination?"
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"Mostly I straddle reality and the imagination. My reality needs imagination like a bulb needs a socket. My imagination needs reality like a blind man needs a cane."
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"With imagination, you can put something where nothing was."
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"An act of imagination is an act of self-acceptance."
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"Poetry must speak of others, in order to speak for the poet's imagination, in order to speak of itself; it is slowed down by poetics after its flight is over."
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"The imagination is how things get done. You have to cultivate creativity."
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"When you are completely absorbed or caught up in something, you become oblivious to things around you, or to the passage of time. It is this absorption in what you are doing that frees your unconscious and releases your creative imagination."
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"His icebergs are strange monuments with a symbol embodied in their form and their colours. They do not freeze you when you look at them, for they are not of ice, they are what Lawren Harris feels and thinks after he has contemplated them"
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"Children being children, however, the grotesque Hopping Pot had taken hold of their imaginations. The solution was to jettison the pro-Muggle moral but keep the warty cauldron, so by the middle of the sixteenth century a different version of the tale was in wide circulation among wizarding families. In the revised story, the Hopping Pot protects an innocent wizard from his torch-bearing, pitchfork-toting neighbours by chasing them away from the wizard's cottage, catching them and swallowing them whole."
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"Einstein said 'your imagination is more important than intelligence,' and I have a very, very big imagination."
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"I am going to try speaking some reckless words, and I want you to try to listen recklessly."
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"No man can avail himself of the forces of his creative imagination, while dissipating them."
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"Where ignorance lurks, so too do the frontiers of discovery and imagination"
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"Often it is just lack of imagination that keeps a man from suffering very much."
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