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Falling in love consists merely in uncorking the imagination and bottling the common-sense.
Falling in love consists merely in uncorking the imagination and bottling the common-sense.
Imagination is the one weapon in the war against reality.
Imagination is the one weapon in the war against reality.
When I could not sleep for cold
I had fire enough in my brain,
And builded with read more
When I could not sleep for cold
I had fire enough in my brain,
And builded with roofs of gold
My beautiful castles in Spain!
People who lean on logic and philosophy and rational exposition end by starving the best part of the mind.
People who lean on logic and philosophy and rational exposition end by starving the best part of the mind.
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.
. . . his master was in a manner always in a wrong Boxe and building
castels in the read more
. . . his master was in a manner always in a wrong Boxe and building
castels in the ayre or catching Hares with Tabers.
A rock pile ceases to be a rock pile the moment a single man contemplates it, bearing within him the read more
A rock pile ceases to be a rock pile the moment a single man contemplates it, bearing within him the image of a cathedral.
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.
Creativity represents a miraculous coming together of the uninhibited energy of the child with its apparent opposite and enemy, the read more
Creativity represents a miraculous coming together of the uninhibited energy of the child with its apparent opposite and enemy, the sense of order imposed on the disciplined adult intelligence.
