Quote by Michael Tippett
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My true function within a society which embraces all of us is to continue an age-old tradition. This tradition is to create images from the depths of the imagination and to give them form, whether visual, intellectual or musical. – Michael Tippett

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I am quite certain in my heart of hearts that modern music and modern art is not a conspiracy, but is a form of truth and integrity for those who practise it honestly, decently and with all their being. – Michael Tippett

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Music
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Poetry is fascinating. As soon as it begins the poetry has changed the thing into something extra, and somehow prose can go over into poetry. – Michael Tippett

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Poetry
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Shakespeare fascinated me. He hardly ever left the country. His imagination was worldwide though reading. – Michael Tippett

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Imagination
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Imagination
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In my wildest imagination, I never thought that the fifth of six children born to Helen and Buddy Watts – in a poor black neighborhood, in the poor rural community of Eufaula, Oklahoma – would someday be called Congressman. – J. C. Watts

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Imagination

Those who do not think outside the box are easily contained. – Nicolas Manetta

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Imagination

I always wanted to ride a dragon myself, so I decided to do this for a year in my imagination. – Cornelia Funke

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Imagination

It would be a bitter cosmic joke if we destroy ourselves due to atrophy of the imagination. – Martha Gellhorn

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Imagination

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An ingenuous mind feels in unmerited praise the bitterest reproof. – Walter Savage Landor

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Worth

When I play live, its a conversation that were all having with the song, and the audience… their response and relationship with the songs is as valid as my relationship with the songs. – Tori Amos

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relationship

I believe in education and wish I had a better one. – Loretta Lynn

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Education

I credit poetry for making this space-walk possible. – Seamus Heaney

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Poetry