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“It is better to entertain an idea than to take home to live with you for the rest of your life.”

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Randall Jarrell was an influential American poet, born on May 6, 1914, and died on October 14, 1965. His poetry is known for its profound emotion and unique style, considered a significant representative of American poetry in the 20th century. more

“I change many things, discard others, and try again and again until I am satisfied; then, in my head, I being to elaborate the work in its breadth, its narrowness, its height, its depth...I hear and see the image in front of me from every angle as if it had been cast and only the labour of writing it down remains.”

Ifs Writing Trying Imagination Fronts Remains Depth Casts Satisfied Height Labour Again And Again Angle Try Again Breadth

Author:Ludwig van Beethoven

“The primary imagination I hold to be the living power and prime agent of all human perception, and as a repetition in the finite mind of the eternal act of creation in the infinite I Am.”

Mind Humans Imagination Creation Eternal Perception Infinite Agents Primaries Prime Repetition Finite

Author:Samuel Taylor Coleridge

“The faculty of imagination is both the rudder and the bridle of the senses.”

Imagination Senses Faculty Rudders

Book:The notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci

Source: The notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci

“It is no small benefit on finding oneself in bed in the dark to go over again in the imagination the main lines of the forms previously studied, or other noteworthy things conceived by ingenious speculation.”

Form Imagination Lines Dark Bed Benefits Findings Oneself Speculation Ingenious Finding Oneself

Book:The notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci

Source: The notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci

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