"As I lay asleep in Italy There came a voice from over the Sea, And with great power it forth led me To walk in the visions of Poesy."
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"The paradox of the prophet: his very success is his failure. The prophet whose time has come no longer shocks; he entertains."
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"You cannot conceive the many without the one...The study of the unit is among those that lead the mind on and turn it to the vision of reality."
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"In the one instance, the dreamerloses sight of this object in a wilderness of deductions and suggestionsuntilhe finds the incitamentum, or first cause of his musings,... forgotten. In my case, the primary object was invariably frivolous, although assuming, through the medium of my distempered vision, a refracted and unreal importance."
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"The product of the scientific imagination is a new vision of relations - like that of artistic imagination."
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"I saw, in gradual vision through my tears, The sweet, sad years, the melancholy years, Those of my own life, who by turns had flung A shadow across me."
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"My vision is for a fully reusable rocket transport system between Earth and Mars that is able to re-fuel on Mars - this is very important - so you don't have to carry the return fuel when you go there."
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"Vision gets the dreams started."
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"Few have greater riches than the joy That comes to us in visions, In dreams which nobody can take away."
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"He simply felt that if he could carry away the vision of the spot of earth she walked on, and the way the sky and sea enclosed it, the rest of the world might seem less empty."
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"Your vision will be clearer only when you manage to see within your heart."
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"The downside of videos is that it will put my vision in front of other people, so they might not get the chance to create their own."
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"You can just drift unhappily towards this vision of heaven on earth, and ultimately that is what architecture is a vision of: Heaven on earth, at it's best."
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"I must follow the people. Am I not their leader?"
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"The moral imperative to make big changes is inescapable...that what we take for granted may not be here for our children"
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"The world is waiting for men with vision - it is not interested in mere pictures."
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"Have as much fun as you can and don't feel that the edge of your canvas confines you - let your vision go right on."
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"Creatures of a very particular making, we need to know the cultural blinders that narrow our world view as well as the psychological blinders that narrow our view of our personal experience."
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"If a dream can tell the future it can also thwart that future. For God will not permit that we shall know what is to come. He is bound to no one that the world unfold just so upon its course and those who by some sorcery or by some dream might come to pierce the veil that lies so darkly over all that is before them may serve by just that vision to cause that God should wrench the world from its heading and set it upon another course altogether and then where stands the sorcerer? Where the dreamer and his dream?"
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"I have sought love, first, because it brings ecstasy – ecstasy so great that I would often have sacrificed all the rest of life for a few hours of that joy. ... I have sought it, finally, because in the union of love I have seen, in a mystic miniature, the prefiguring vision of the heaven that saints and poets have imagined."
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