"Work up imagination to the state of vision."
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"It seems that I must bid the Muse to pack, / Choose Plato and Plotinus for a friend / Until imagination, ear and eye, / Can be content with argument and deal / In abstract things; or be derided by / A sort of battered kettle at the heel."
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"The writer has three sources: imagination, observation, and experience"
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"Truth is a matter of the imagination."
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"An imaginative adventure does not enjoy the same corsets as reportage."
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"Science does not know its debt to imagination. Goethe did not believe that a great naturalist could exist without this faculty."
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"The creative act is a letting down of the net of human imagination into the ocean of chaos on which we are suspended, and the attempt to bring out of it ideas."
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"The monkey body has carried us to this moment of release, but we are coming more and more to exist in a world made by the human imagination."
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"Scarcely any degree of judgment is sufficient to restrain the imagination from magnifying that on which it is long detained"
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"The present time is seldom able to fill desire or imagination with immediate enjoyment, and we are forced to supply its deficiencies by recollection or anticipation."
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"He was a thorough good sort; a bit limited; a bit thick in the head; yes; but a thorough good sort. Whatever he took up he did in the same matter-of-fact sensible way; without a touch of imagination, without a sparkle of brilliancy, but with the inexplicable niceness of his type."
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"Women alone stir my imagination."
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"There is an astonishing imagination, even in the science of mathematics."
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"Imagination is a poor matter when it has to part company with understanding."
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"Stern accuracy in inquiring, bold imagination in describing, these are the cogs on which history soars or flutters and wobbles."
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"Toy Soldiers was my introduction to film. I certainly didn't think I was doing art by any stretch of the imagination."
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"Two thousand years ago, five thousand, they didn't have a word for imagination, and faith was the best they could come up with for a pretty solemn bunch of followers."
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"As usual, nature's imagination far surpasses our own, as we have seen from the other theories which are subtle and deep."
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"An artist must have imagination. An artist who does not use his imagination is a mechanic."
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"Modernism is the protein of our cultural imagination."
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