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Today the function of the artist is to bring imagination to science and science to imagination, where they meet, in the myth.
(Cyril Connolly (1903-1974), British critic. The Unquiet Grave, pt. 3 (1944, rev. 1951).)
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Imagination has seized power.
[L'imagination prend le pouvoir.]
(Graffito. Paris '68, ch. 2, Marc Rohan (1988).)
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The imagination is man's power over nature.
(Wallace Stevens (1879-1955), U.S. poet. "Adagia," Opus Posthumous (1959).)
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Reality leaves a lot to the imagination.
(John Lennon (1940-1980), British rock musician. CBC-TV, June 1969. "The Way It Is.")
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The greenest island of my imagination.
(George Gordon Noel Byron (1788-1824), British poet. letter, Nov. 17, 1816, to poet Thomas Moore. Byron's Letters and Journals, vol. 5, ed. Leslie A. Marchand (1973-1981).)
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Memory is imagination pinned down.
(Mason Cooley (b. 1927), U.S. aphorist. City Aphorisms, Sixth Selection, New York (1989).)
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Imagination is the eye of the soul.
(Joseph Joubert (1754-1824), French essayist, moralist. Pensées, no. 42 (1842).)
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Only in your imagination can you revise.
(Fay Wray (b. 1907), U.S. screen actor. International Herald Tribune (Paris, Feb. 22, 1989).)
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Politics is the enemy of the imagination.
(Ian McEwan (b. 1948), British author. Quoted in Independent on Sunday (London, July 5, 1992).)
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Imagination Dead Imagine.
(Samuel Beckett (1906-1989), Irish dramatist, novelist. The title of a short work in First Love and Other Shorts, p. 61, Grove Press (1974).)
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