#imagination

Anyone who lives within his means suffers from a lack of imagination. ↗

— Lionel Stander

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We say God and the imagination are one... How high that highest candle lights the dark. ↗

— Wallace Stevens

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In the world of words, the imagination is one of the forces of nature. ↗

— Wallace Stevens

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The imagination is man's power over nature. ↗

— Wallace Stevens

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All the best have something in common, a regard for reality, an agreement to its primacy over the imagination. ↗

— Wislawa Szymborska

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Fear of error which everything recalls to me at every moment of the flight of my ideas, this mania for control, makes men prefer reason's imagination to the imagination of the senses. And yet it is always the imagination alone which is at work. ↗

— Louis Aragon

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Vision - It reaches beyond the thing that is, into the conception of what can be. Imagination gives you the picture. Vision gives you the impulse to make the picture your own. ↗

— Robert Collier

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The capacity you're thinking of is imagination; without it there can be no understanding, indeed no fiction. ↗

— William Trevor

#fiction #imagination #indeed #thinking #understanding

It is not enough to know your craft - you have to have feeling. Science is all very well, but for us imagination is worth far more. ↗

— Edouard Manet

#enough #far #feeling #imagination #know

Georgie?” He reached out with both hands to steady her—and himself. His mind had trouble focusing. He couldn’t believe Georgie was actually standing in front of him. She looked liked an angel—in knee-high biker boots. Those boots looked even better in real life than in his imagination. He gazed into her eyes and was filled with so many emotions, so many things he wanted to say to her, he didn’t know where to start. “I like your shoes,” he said. ↗

— Jennifer Shirk

#imagination