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We say God and the imagination are one... How high that highest ca

We say God and the imagination are one… How high that highest candle lights the dark. – Wallace Stevens

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Everything is complicated if that were not so, life and poetry and everything else would be a bore. – Wallace Stevens

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Poetry
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Wallace Stevens
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Union of the weakest develops strength not wisdom. Can all men, together, avenge one of the leaves that have fallen in autumn? But the wise man avenges by building his city in snow. – Wallace Stevens

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Weakness
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I think my imagination dictates the technologies I use. But at the same time, my imagination can be technologic. Sometimes I see a tool and I know immediately how to use it, but most of the time I use the tool for an idea I already have. – Michel Gondry

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My imagination, my ability to understand the way love and people grow over time, how passion can surprise and renew, utterly failed me. – Elizabeth Wurtzel

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The openness of rural Nebraska certainly influenced me. That openness, in a way, fosters the imagination. But growing up, Lincoln wasnt a small town. It was a college town. It had record stores and was a liberal place. – Matthew Sweet

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Man is an imagining being. – Gaston Bachelard

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