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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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People can die of mere imagination. – Geoffrey Chaucer

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All the works of man have their origin in creative fantasy. What right have we then to depreciate imagination. – Carl Jung

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To regard the imagination as metaphysics is to think of it as part of life, and to think of it as part of life is to realize the extent of artifice. We live in the mind. – Wallace Stevens

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I have a very vivid imagination. – Janice Dickinson

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