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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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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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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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We forget that what matters begins with the imagination. – Terry Brooks

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To put yourself in anothers place requires real imagination, but by doing so each Girl Scout will be able to love among others happily. – Juliette Gordon Low

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For imagination sets the goal picture which our automatic mechanism works on. We act, or fail to act, not because of will, as is so commonly believed, but because of imagination. – Maxwell Maltz

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Poetry is that art which selects and arranges the symbols of thought in such a manner as to excite the imagination the most powerfully and delightfully. – William C. Bryant

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