A poet ought not to pick natures pocket. Let him borrow, and so bo

A poet ought not to pick natures pocket. Let him borrow, and so borrow as to repay by the very act of borrowing. Examine nature accurately, but write from recollection, and trust more to the imagination than the memory. – Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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But who can paint like Nature? Can imagination boast, amid its gay creation, hues like hers? – James Thomson

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Its a wonderful thing working with young actors. I know a lot of people dont like working with children. I actually adore it, because you watch their imagination open up and you watch them start to learn this job that Ive been doing for so long. They come with such a lack of cynicism. – Michelle Forbes

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You are indebted to you imagination for three-fourths of your importance. – David Garrick

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With the world as it now presents itself, there is something perverse, and probably dysfunctional, about a person who stays in the same house for 40 years. What about the expanding family syndrome, the school-lottery migration, the property portfolio neurosis? Have you no imagination? – Iain Sinclair

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