Quote by Derek Walcott
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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I dont like this idea of Method. I come from that school, but what I was taught was that its your imagination. You do your homework, and you use your imagination. – Mark Ruffalo

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I deeply adored my mum. She was an extraordinary person, even for the prejudice Im likely to have. She was beautiful, amusing, a tremendous elaborator of things into comic proportions and extravagant in her imagination. – Andrew Motion

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We forget that what matters begins with the imagination. – Terry Brooks

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Novelists are not equipped to make a movie, in my opinion. They make their own movie when they write: theyre casting, theyre dressing the scene, theyre working out where the energy of the scene is coming from and theyre also relying tremendously on the creative imagination of the reader. – John le Carre

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