T. S. Eliot Quotes, Ideas Quotes, Imagination Quotes

When forced to work within a strict framework, the imagination is taxed to its utmost and will produce its richest ideas. Given total freedom, the work is likely to sprawl.

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Can we only love Something created in our own imaginations?

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One Power alone makes a Poet: Imagination. The Divine Vision.

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But nothing less than the most radical imagination will carry us beyond this place, beyond the mere struggle for survival, to that lucid recognition of our possibilities which will keep us impatient, and unresigned to mere survival.

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I grew up in a desert, which has no kind of imagination.

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If we are inclined to forget how much there is in the world besides that which we anticipate, then works of art are perhaps a little to blame, for in them we find at work the same process of simplification or selection as in the imagination.

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Imagination is a good servant, and a bad master.

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The heart of an Irishman is nothing but his imagination

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To endure the pain of living, we all drug ourselves more or less with gin, with literature, with superstitions, with romance, with idealism, political, sentimental, and moral, with every possible preparation of that universal hashish: imagination.

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There is a mystery about this which stimulates the imagination; where there is no imagination there is no horror.

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I must confess that my imagination refuses to see any sort of submarine doing anything but suffocating its crew and floundering at sea.

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Most churches don't have the resources for these tricks and inducements but are still bound to the imagination that church happens on a Sunday in a building.

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To invent something, all you need is imagination and a big pile of junk.

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Imagination rules the earth

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Imagination? It is the one thing beside honesty that a good writer must have. The more he learns from experience the more he can imagine.

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Anybody can have common sense, provided that they have no imagination.

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The chief imagination of Christendom, Dante Alighieri, so utterly found himself That he has made that hollow face of his More plain to the mind's eye than any face But that of Christ.

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Imagination is a very high sort of seeing.

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The imagination ... that reconciling and mediatory power, which incorporating the reason in images of the sense and organizing (as it were) the flux of the senses by the permanence and self-circling energies of the reason, gives birth to a system of symbols, harmonious in themselves, and consubstantial with the truths of which they are the conductors.

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The function of the imagination is not to make strange things settled, so much as to make settled things strange.

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