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The imagination is mans power over nature. - Wallace Stevens

The imagination is mans power over nature. – Wallace Stevens

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It is the unknown that excites the ardor of scholars, who, in the known alone, would shrivel up with boredom. – Wallace Stevens

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alone
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Wallace Stevens
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Most people read poetry listening for echoes because the echoes are familiar to them. They wade through it the way a boy wades through water, feeling with his toes for the bottom: The echoes are the bottom. – Wallace Stevens

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Poetry
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Wallace Stevens
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What does it mean to be Catholic and not a Catholic? I feel adrift, homeless. My Catholic imagination allows me to see the soul as a lit breath, seeking the divine. It persists. – Julianna Baggott

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Imagination

For me, my travels have been the chance to go to a place that already exists in my imagination. – Hugo Pratt

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Imagination

Everything that is new or uncommon raises a pleasure in the imagination, because it fills the soul with an agreeable surprise, gratifies its curiosity, and gives it an idea of which it was not before possessed. – Joseph Addison

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Imagination

Writing gives me the opportunity to explore ideas, play with language, solve problems, use my imagination, and draw on my own childhood. – Jack Prelutsky

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Imagination

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Above all we should not forget that government is an evil, a usurpation upon the private judgement and individual conscience of mankind. – William Godwin

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The time I spent thinking about how I was better than somebody else or worrying about somebody elses attitude was time I could put to better use. – Charley Pride

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Most of the time its the role. Sometimes its the story and sometimes it just the paycheck. Its the little movies that come out as stories or the fact that I have work to go out, you know what Im saying, you can only be out so long without work, you start getting antsy. – Morgan Freeman

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I have often thought that if a rational Fascist dictatorship were to exist, then it would choose the American system. – Noam Chomsky

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