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Writing poetry is the hard manual labor of the imagination. - Ishm

Writing poetry is the hard manual labor of the imagination. – Ishmael Reed

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I used to be a discipline problem, which caused me embarrassment until I realized that being a discipline problem in a racist society is sometimes an honor. – Ishmael Reed

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The power of imagination makes us infinite. – John Muir

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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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When we had to do book reports, I would pick a book that no one read and just make it up and turn that in. I got praised for my imagination. – Ahmet Zappa

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To put down an ideogram of a table so that people will recognize it as a table is not the work of a painter, but to sense it for a moment as a magic carpet with a leg hanging down at each corner is the beginning of a painters imagination. – Frank Auerbach

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Modern poets talk against business, poor things, but all of us write for money. Beginners are subjected to trial by market. – Robert Frost

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Even if you are a minority of one, the truth is the truth. – Mahatma Gandhi

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