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Quote by Michael Tippett
My true function within a society which embraces all of us is to c

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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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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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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The English language is nobodys special property. It is the property of the imagination: it is the property of the language itself. – Derek Walcott

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Suffering, it turns out, demands profound imagination. A new future has to be conjured up because the old future isnt there anymore. – Rob Bell

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The travel writer seeks the world we have lost – the lost valleys of the imagination. – Alexander Cockburn

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Our imaginations are strong as children. Sometimes they get shoved aside, these imaginations. They get dusty and mildewed with age. The imagination is a muscle that has to be put to use or it shrivels. – Julianna Baggott

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