Imagination has given us the steam engine, the telephone, the talking-machine, and the automobile, for these things had to be dreamed of before they became realities. So I believe that dreams - daydreams, you know, with your eyes wide open and your brain machinery whizzing-are likely to lead to the betterment of the world. The imaginative child will become the imaginative man or woman most apt to invent, and therefore to foster, civilization.
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These are the gloomy comparisons of a disturbed imagination; the
melancholy madness of poetry, without the inspiration.
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melancholy madness of poetry, without the inspiration.
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It's not what you look at that matters, it's what you see.
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You can't wait for inspiration. You have to go after it with a club.
You can't wait for inspiration. You have to go after it with a club.
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My country has contrived for me the most insignificant office that ever the invention of man contrived or his imagination conceived.
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.]
