Quotations About / On: IMAGINATION

  • 41.
    I don't know what imagination is, if not an unpruned, tangled kind of memory.
    (Christina Stead (1902-1983), Australian novelist. Letty Fox, in Letty Fox: Her Luck, ch. 6 (written 1946, published Virago, n.d.). Lived and wrote in the U.S. and England.)
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  • 42.
    All the powers of imagination combine in hypochondria.
    (Mason Cooley (b. 1927), U.S. aphorist. City Aphorisms, Thirteenth Selection, New York (1994).)
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  • 43.
    Whatever appeals to the imagination, by transcending the ordinary limits of human ability, wonderfully encourages and liberates us.
    (Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882), U.S. essayist, poet, philosopher. "Napoleon; or, the Man of the World," Representative Men (1850).)
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  • 44.
    Perhaps we ought to feel with more imagination.
    (John Ashbery (b. 1927), U.S. poet, critic. "The Recent Past.")
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  • 45.
    How the imagination is piqued by anecdotes of some great man passing incognito, as a king in gray clothes.
    (Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882), U.S. essayist, poet, philosopher. "Culture," The Conduct of Life (1860).)
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  • 46.
    Experience and imagination must enter into the very constitution of our thoughts involving concrete individuals.
    (Zeno Vendler (b. 1921), U.S. professor of philosophy (University of California at San Diego). Res Cogitans, p. 76, Cornell University Press (1972).)
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  • 47.
    The death of Satan was a tragedy
    For the imagination.
    (Wallace Stevens (1879-1955), U.S. poet. "Esthétique du Mal.")
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  • 48.
    Don Quixote's misfortune is not his imagination, but Sancho Panza.
    (Franz Kafka (1883-1924), Prague German Jewish author, novelist. The Third Notebook, October 18, 1917. The Blue Octavo Notebooks, ed. Max Brod, trans. by Ernst Kaiser and Eithne Wilkins. Exact Change, Cambridge, MA (1991). Dearest Father: Stories and Other Writings, trans. by Ernst Kaiser and Eithne Wilkins, New York, Schocken Books (1954).)
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  • 49.
    Cowardice, as distinguished from panic, is almost always simply a lack of ability to suspend the functioning of the imagination.
    (Ernest Hemingway (1899-1961), U.S. author. Men at War, introduction (1942).)
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  • 50.
    Imagination at wit's end spreads its sad wings.
    (Samuel Beckett (1906-1989), Irish dramatist, novelist. The narrator, in Ill Seen Ill Said, p. 17, Grove Press (1981).)
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