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It will be
found, in fact, that the ingenious are always fanciful, and
the truly imaginative never otherwise than analytic.
-- Edgar Allan Poe
1809-1845, American Poet,
Critic, short-story Writer
It is more
than likely that the brain itself is, in origin and
development, only a sort of great clot of genital fluid held
in suspense or reserved. This hypothesis would explain the
enormous content of the brain as a maker or presenter of
images.
-- Ezra Pound
1885-1972, American Poet,
Critic
Often it is
just lack of imagination that keeps a man from suffering
very much.
-- Marcel Proust
1871-1922, French Novelist
I have
discovered that people with money have no imagination, and
people with imagination have no money.
-- George Weiss Rainbow
1940-, British Eccentric
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The
imagination equips us to perceive reality when it is not
fully materialized.
-- Mary Caroline Richards
An
unimaginative person can neither be reverent or kind.
-- John Ruskin
1819-1900, British Critic,
Social Theorist
Imaginary
evils soon become real one by indulging our reflections on
them.
-- John Ruskin
1819-1900, British Critic,
Social Theorist
It is
eminently a weariable faculty, eminently delicate, and
incapable of bearing fatigue; so that if we give it too many
objects at a time to employ itself upon, or very grand ones
for a long time together, it fails under the effort, becomes
jaded, exactly as the limbs do by bodily fatigue, and
incapable of answering any farther appeal till it has had
rest.
-- John Ruskin
1819-1900, British Critic,
Social Theorist
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