Imagination in poetry, as distinguished from mere fancy is the transfiguring of the real or actual to the ideal.

Fancy GPS systems and space-age tractors are what most excite the farmers I know and astound their city friends.

I have no fancy living at all. Well, I have a house in Sun Valley. Five acres in the woods. I guess that's fancy.

Fancy is imagination in her youth and adolescence. Fancy is always excursive; imagination, not seldom, is sedate.

Things can never touch the soul, but stand inert outside it, so that disquiet can arise only from fancies within.

Talent wears well, genius wears itself out; talent drives a snug brougham in fact; genius, a sun-chariot in fancy.

It's nice when women fancy me, but I think I will only disappoint them so I prefer it if they don't know who I am.

Somebody is going to have to do fancy footwork to make sure Elizabeth and John Edwards get their prime-time shot .

Poetry is like painting: one piece takes your fancy if you stand close to it, another if you keep at some distance.

All human excellence is but comparative — there are persons who excel us, as much as we fancy we excel the meanest.

I don't play a lot of fancy guitar. I don't want to play it. The kind of guitar I want to play is mean, mean licks.

Strong Reason and good fancy, joyn'd with experience and tryalls, so that we are assured of the good effects of it.

I've turned my back on fancy parties and red carpets. I'm a writer, and if I did that, I'd never get anything done.

Fame has also this great drawback, that if we pursue it, we must direct our lives so as to please the fancy of men.

I love dressing up around the holidays! My friends also really like to get dressed up. It's an excuse to get fancy.

I don't buy fancy things. I donated $2 million to Wu-Tang. I got a mixtape in return. It was a wonderful investment.

On tour and on event days, we usually wear fancy outfits, so in everyday life, I prefer wearing comfortable clothes.

I'm better than dirt. Well, most kinds of dirt, not that fancy store-bought dirt... I can't compete with that stuff.

Look for all fancy wordings and get rid of themAvoid all terms and expressions, old or new, that embody affectation.

All human excellence is but comparative. There may be persons who excel us, as much as we fancy we excel the meanest.

I just feel that if somebody happened to fancy somebody else, well, then, I should be a friend that he can say it to.

When I'm in a bar I need to be the coolest one that can drink more than anyone else and I need the girls to fancy me.

I like to start with the first chapter, end with chapter 40. No flashbacks, nothing fancy, just a direct storytelling.

If it's just going to go in my body, then I don't want fancy things in my body. I just want regular things in my body.

No crime lab in the world looks like the 'CSI' ones because there's simply not the money for all those fancy machines.

To express yourself as you are, without any intentional, fancy way of adjusting yourself, is the most important thing.

Shakespeare is dangerous to young poets; they cannot but reproduce him, while they fancy that they produce themselves.

I have a pretty fancy facialist, this woman Dale Breault. Getting older, it's a good thing to have a serious facialist.

She will never submit to any thing requiring industry and patience, and a subjection of the fancy to the understanding.

Repentance is no other than a recanting of the will, and opposition to our fancies, which lead us which way they please.

I have been blessed with a family, mother especially, who started buying me fancy shoes from the time I took baby steps.

And then there stole into my fancy, like a rich musical note, the thought of what sweet rest there must be in the grave.

What makes people hard-hearted is this, that each man has, or fancies he has, as much as he can bear in his own troubles.

Celebrating faith over reason is merely a way of denying what is, in favor of embracing any whim that strikes your fancy.

I didn't go to fancy schools or come from money or from a family that valued law or public speaking in any shape or form.

The one thing that no Anglo-Saxon can stand is to be ruled by someone who 'talks fancy' by using Latinate words too often.

I never carry money, just like the real Queen. If I fancy something in a shop I always ask someone on our staff to buy it.

I'm good at embroidery. It's what I always wanted to do.... Yep, instead of whoring, I just wanted to do fancy embroidery.

You have to eat well, drink enough water and get enough sleep to look your best, and no fancy creams will substitute that.

Possession, it is true, crowns exertion with rest; but it is only in the illusions of fancy that it has power to charm us.

Jealous of the actors now, are we?" "What, of some fancy boy on the screen? Inconceivable." Oh, this was going to be good.

I'm having surgery today to have my face cleaned up. But it will take some fancy stitching to make me all beautiful again!

'Do you spell it with a 'V' or a 'W'?' inquired the judge. 'That depends upon the taste and fancy of the speller, my Lord'.

I adore going to a very, very fancy restaurant - as long as the spirit is genuine, like it's their pleasure to welcome you.

I am who I am and I don't pretend not to be single or burned. And men might not fancy me because I'm too short or too thin.

O,speak to me no more;these words like daggers enter my ears.(a fancy way of saying SHUT UP!)" — William Shakespeare "hamlet

We never see the fancy schools with the blazers and ties in films about Africa! But, in fact, we too have class and elitism.

I didn't think being a writer was a fancy thing. It was a job like any other job, except apparently you could do it at home.

There were no lies here. All fancies fled away. That's what happened in all deserts. It was just you, and what you believed.

There is no such thing as luck. It's a fancy name for being always at our duty, and so sure to be ready when good time comes.

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