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The English language is nobodys special property. It is the proper

The English language is nobodys special property. It is the property of the imagination: it is the property of the language itself. – Derek Walcott

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Visual surprise is natural in the Caribbean it comes with the landscape, and faced with its beauty, the sigh of History dissolves. – Derek Walcott

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Beauty
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Lyrically I like to use themes that make the listener use his or her imagination, and to give a little of the lessons Ive learned in my own life. – Ronnie James Dio

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Reading a hard copy book, and reading a book on an iPad are slightly different experiences. What they both have in common though is that you must engage your imagination in the process. – LeVar Burton

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True intelligence requires fabulous imagination. – Ian Mcewan

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The creative person is both more primitive and more cultivated, more destructive, a lot madder and a lot saner, than the average person. – Frank Barron, Think, November-December 1962

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