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It is through the intentionality of poetic imagination that the poet's soul discovers the opening of consciousness common to all true poetry.
Unless we insist that politics is imagination and mind, we will learn that imagination and mind are politics, and of a kind we will not like.
The inhibitor of creativity isn't potential it's fear. We worry about saying the wrong thing or looking foolish so we govern our imagination.
Democracy is the most demanding of all forms of government in terms of the energy, imagination, and public spirit required of the individual.
Appreciating old wine is like making love to a very old lady. It is possible. It can even be enjoyable. But it requires a bit of imagination.
An art aims, above all, at producing something beautiful which affects not our feelings but the organ of pure contemplation, our imagination.
Vary your training, your running partners, and your environment. Only your imagination limits the ways you can spice up your running routine.
The human intellect owes its superiority over that of the lower animals in great measure to the stimulus which alcohol has given imagination.
Without this playing with fantasy no creative work has ever yet come to birth. The debt we owe to the play of the imagination is incalculable.
There's a lot of idiots in Hollywood, a lot of people with no imagination, so as an actor you have to constantly re-show them what you can do.
Imagination, the supreme delight of the immortal and the immature, should be limited. In order to enjoy life, we should not enjoy it too much.
The opportunities in this world are as great as we have the imagination to see them... but we never get that view from the bottom of the nest.
Nothing is more dangerous to reason than the flights of the imagination and nothing has been the occasion of more mistakes among philosophers.
The trouble with many religions, accused of wishful thinking, is that they are not wishful enough. They show a deplorable lack of imagination.
A city always contains more than any inhabitant can know, and a great city always makes the unknown and the possible spurs to the imagination.
The tragedy of the world is that those who are imaginative have but slight experience, and those who are experienced have feeble imaginations.
Negativity takes no imagination. It's far easier to criticize someone's decisions after they make them than to propose better ones beforehand.
A single glass of champagne imparts a feeling of exhilaration. The nerves are braced; the imagination is stirred, the wits become more nimble.
The actor must use his imagination to be able to answer all questions (when, where, why, how). Make the make-believer existence more definite.
Great imaginations are apt to work from hints and suggestions, and a single moment of emotion is sometimes sufficient to create a masterpiece.
The need for innovation – the lifeblood of business – is widely recognized, and imagination and play are key ingredients for making it happen.
I don't know about everyone else, but I really loved lunch and recess because it was an opportunity to get carried away with your imagination.
Computers operate on simple principles that can be easily understood by anybody with some common sense, a little imagination, and an IQ of 750.
They who, without any previous knowledge of us, think amiss of us, do us no harm; they attack not us, but the phantom of their own imagination.
The opportunities of man are limited only by his imagination. But so few have imagination that there are ten thousand fiddlers to one composer.
Katie smiled and turned away, knowing it wasn't an illusion or a figment of her imagination. She knew what she saw. She knew what she believed.
Fantasy has a dark side to it. It also has a light hemisphere - the power of the human imagination to keep going, to imagine a better tomorrow.
Even when we allow our imaginations to run wild on the joys of heaven, we find that our minds are incapable of conceiving what it will be like.
The birds and I share a natural history. It is a matter of rootedness, of living inside a place for so long that the mind and imagination fuse.
Just because something is told as a story and that story is part legend or myth, or feat of imagination, does not mean there is no truth in it.
The entertainment medium of film is particularly tuned to the present imaginations of people at large. A lot of fiction is intensely nostalgic.
We do live, all of us, on many different levels, and for most artists the world of imagination is more real than the world of the kitchen sink.
If we have received a precious gift from God, it is our imagination. When we tap into our powers of imagination, we are bombs of possibilities.
The pleasures of the imagination are as it were only drawings and models which are played with by poor people who cannot afford the real thing.
To be a storyteller is to be able to speak truth, to be able to use your imagination, to use the creative gifts that the Creator has given you.
RICE-WATER, n. A mystic beverage secretly used by our most popular novelists and poets to regulate the imagination and narcotize the conscience.
Image quality is not the product of a machine, but of the person who directs the machine, and there are no limits to imagination and expression.
It is often said that men are ruled by their imaginations; but it would be truer to say they are governed by the weakness of their imaginations.
If my future were black, it was better surely to face it like a man than to attempt to brighten it by mere will-o’-the-wisps of the imagination.
Though progress starts with the imagination, only work can make things happen. And work itself works best when fueled, again by the imagination.
As great scientists have said and as all children know, it is above all by the imagination that we achieve perception, and compassion, and hope.
When the eye or the imagination is struck with an uncommon work, the next transition of an active mind is to the means by which it was performed
You gave too much rein to your imagination. Imagination is a good servant, and a bad master. The simplest explanation is always the most likely.
The four cornerstones of character on which the structure of this nation was built are: Initiative, Imagination, Individuality and Independence.
We know the effects of many things, but the cause of few; experience, therefore, is a surer guide than imagination, and inquiry than conjecture.
If you end your story, it's a static work of art, a finite circle. But if you don't, it belongs to anyone's imagination. It stays alive forever.
Instead of establishing facts, we have to overthrow errors; instead of ascertaining what is, we have to chase from our imaginations what is not.
the virtue of imagination has this in common with the virtue of courage. Without it, you are less good: with it, you are not necessarily better.
For him and his brother, he now knew, that music was real. Becuase all you had to do, really, was be willing to use your imagination. And listen.
She was sitting in a garden more beautiful than even her rampaging imagination could ever have conjured up, and she was being serenaded by trees.