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The function of the imagination is not to make strange things settled, so much as to make settled things strange.
The function of the imagination is not to make strange things settled, so much as to make settled things strange.
Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were. But without it we go nowhere.
Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were. But without it we go nowhere.
These are the gloomy comparisons of a disturbed imagination; the
melancholy madness of poetry, without the inspiration.
These are the gloomy comparisons of a disturbed imagination; the
melancholy madness of poetry, without the inspiration.
Imagination disposes of everything; it creates beauty, justice, and happiness, which are everything in this world.
Imagination disposes of everything; it creates beauty, justice, and happiness, which are everything in this world.
They are ill discoverers that think there is no land, when they can see nothing but sea.
They are ill discoverers that think there is no land, when they can see nothing but sea.
It is the eye of ignorance that assigns a fixed and unchangeable color to every object; beware of this stumbling read more
It is the eye of ignorance that assigns a fixed and unchangeable color to every object; beware of this stumbling block.
Everything that is new or uncommon raises a pleasure in the imagination, because it fills the soul with an agreeable read more
Everything that is new or uncommon raises a pleasure in the imagination, because it fills the soul with an agreeable surprise, gratifies its curiosity, and gives it an idea of which it was not before possessed.
He paints a dolphin in the woods, a boar in the waves.
[Lat., Delphinum sylvis appingit, fluctibus aprum.]
He paints a dolphin in the woods, a boar in the waves.
[Lat., Delphinum sylvis appingit, fluctibus aprum.]
The creative person is both more primitive and more cultivated, more destructive, a lot madder and a lot saner, than read more
The creative person is both more primitive and more cultivated, more destructive, a lot madder and a lot saner, than the average person.
