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"The poet's function is to make his imagination . . . become the light in the mind of others. His role, in short, is to help people to live their lives."

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William Blake Poet, Painter
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"I rest not from my great task! | To open the Eternal Worlds, | to open the immortal Eyes of Man | Inwards into the Worlds of Thought; | Into eternity, ever expanding | In the Bosom of God, | The Human Imagination"

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William Shakespeare Playwright, Poet
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"Such tricks hath strong imagination, That, if it would but apprehend some joy, It comprehends some bringer of that joy; Or in the night, imagining some fear, How easy is a bush supposed a bear!"

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Samuel Butler Novelist, Poet, Essayist
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"The human intellect owes its superiority over that of the lower animals in great measure to the stimulus which alcohol has given imagination."

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Ralph Waldo Emerson Essayist, Philosopher, Poet
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"The statue is then beautiful when it begins to be incomprehensible, when it is passing out of criticism, and can no longer be defined by compass and measuring-wand, but demands an active imagination to go with it, and to say what it is in the act of doing."

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Terence McKenna Ethnobotanist, Philosopher, Writer
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"We are creatures of information and the imagination. The monkey we are already beginning to transform and shed. We don't look like the other monkeys, and we look less like them all the time."

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Terence McKenna Ethnobotanist, Philosopher, Writer
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"The human imagination, in conjunction with technology, has become a force so potent that it really can no longer be unleashed on the surface of the planet with safety."

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Ray Bradbury Author
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"Most members of Congress are politicians. They're bores. They're damn boring. They have no imagination, and they don't know how to imagine the future."

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Thomas Merton Writer, Monk
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"We are not perfectly free until we live in pure hope. For when our hope is pure, it no longer trusts exclusively in human and visible means, nor rests in any visible end. He who hopes in God trusts God, Whom he never sees, to bring him to the possession of things that are beyond imagination."

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Tony Robbins Author, Life Coach
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"Your imagination is ten times more potent than your willpower. Unleashed, it provides a sense of certainty and tenacious vision that goes far beyond any limitation of the past."

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Tom Waits Singer-songwriter, Actor
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"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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