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Man is an imagining being. - Gaston Bachelard

Man is an imagining being. – Gaston Bachelard

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The repose of sleep refreshes only the body. It rarely sets the soul at rest. The repose of the night does not belong to us. It is not the possession of our being. Sleep opens within us an inn for phantoms. In the morning we must sweep out the shadows. – Gaston Bachelard

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Sleep
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A word is a bud attempting to become a twig. How can one not dream while writing? It is the pen which dreams. The blank page gives the right to dream. – Gaston Bachelard

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Authors & Writing
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Poetry is one of the destinies of speech… One would say that the poetic image, in its newness, opens a future to language. – Gaston Bachelard

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He is the true enchanter, whose spell operates, not upon the senses, but upon the imagination and the heart. – Washington Irving

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Avatar is the greatest, most comprehensive collection of movie cliches ever assembled, but its put together in a brand new way with a new technology, and tremendous imagination, making it a true epic and a kind of a milestone. – Joe Dante

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Imagination

Poetry proceeds from the totality of man, sense, imagination, intellect, love, desire, instinct, blood and spirit together. – Jacques Maritain

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Imagination

Well, I think that as a country, weve drifted away from appreciating the importance of imagination. – Terry Brooks

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Men who accomplish great things in the industrial world are the ones who have faith in the money producing power of ideas. – Charles Fillmore

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Every word born of an inner necessity — writing must never be anything else. – Etty Hillesum, quoted in Ten Fun Things to Do Before You Die by Karol Jackowski

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