"You are the only woman who ever answered the demands of my imagination."
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"People can't just listen to the music and have their own imagination and take them where they wanna go."
"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."
"My imagination creates my reality."
"The world of imagination is the world of eternity."
"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"
"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!"
"Is it not a great temptation to be so valiant in imagination and so cowardly in execution?"
"The human intellect owes its superiority over that of the lower animals in great measure to the stimulus which alcohol has given imagination."
"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."
"I just love music - by no stretch of the imagination am I professionally competent."
"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."
"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."
"Collecting facts is important. Knowledge is important. But if you don't have an imagination to use the knowledge, civilization is nowhere."
"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."
"What Homo sapien imagines, he may slowly convert himself to."
"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."
"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."
"My reality needs imagination like a bulb needs a socket. My imagination needs reality like a blind man needs a cane."
"Change happens not just by giving the mind new arguments but also by feeding the imagination new beauties"