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

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The world is not run by thought, nor by imagination, but by opinion. – Elizabeth Drew

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Enthusiasm is that temper of the mind in which the imagination has got the better of the judgment. – William Warburton

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I am better able to imagine hell than heaven it is my inheritance, I suppose. – Elinor Wylie

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I had this wild imagination. I was never me. All my childhood photos, Im in fancy dress, playing a Russian refuge or Marvelous Mad Madam Mim. – Juno Temple

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