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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Humans consist of body, mind and imagination. Our bodies are faulty, our minds untrustworthy, but our imagination has made us remarkable.

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

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Imagination labors best in distant fields.

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It is the lava of the imagination whose eruption prevents an earthquake.

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But oh! each visitation Suspends what nature gave me any my birth, My shaping spirit of Imagination.

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An Irishman's imagination never lets him alone, never convinces him, never satisfies him; but it makes him that he can't face reality nor deal with it nor handle it nor conquer it: he can only sneer at them that do, and be 'agreeable to strangers', like a good-for-nothing woman on the streets.

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This is one of those cases in which the imagination is baffled by the facts.

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If the imagination is to transcend and transform experience it has to question, to challenge, to conceive of alternatives, perhaps to the very life you are living at the moment.

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A woman filled with faith in the one she loves is the creation of a novelist's imagination.

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I do not stick to rules when cooking. I rely on my imagination.

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But thou that didst appear so fair To fond imagination, Dost rival in the light of day Her delicate creation.

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Despair, when not the response to absolute physical and moral defeat is, like war, the failure 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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Women alone stir my imagination.

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Science does not know its debt to imagination.

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In the one instance, the dreamerloses sight of this object in a wilderness of deductions and suggestionsuntilhe finds the incitamentum, or first cause of his musings,... forgotten. In my case, the primary object was invariably frivolous, although assuming, through the medium of my distempered vision, a refracted and unreal importance.

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When we use our imagination properly it is our greatest friend; it goes belyond reason and is the only light that takes us everywhere.

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Don Quixote's misfortune is not his imagination, but Sancho Panza.

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If religious beliefs and opinions are found contrary to the standards of science they are mere superstitions and imaginations.

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