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“Does progress mean that we dissolve our ancient myths? If we forget our legends, I fear that we shall close an important door to the imagination”

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“Overmodulation By Charlotte M Liebel-Fawls You're a cavity in my oasis, You're a porthole in my sea, You're a stretch of the imagination every time you look at me. You're an ocean in my wineglass, You're a Steinway on the beach, You're a captivating audience, an exciting Rembrandt, A Masterpiece.”

Love Poetry Imagination Sea Ocean Beach Poems Masterpiece Oasis Wine Glass Rembrandt Porthole

Author:Charlotte M. Liebel

“Napoleon said of Massena, that he was not himself until the battle began to go against him; then, when the dead began to fall in ranks around him, awoke his powers of combination, and he put on terror and victory as a robe. So it is in rugged crises, in unweariable endurance, and in aims which put sympathy out of question, that the angel is shown.”

Book:Nature, Addresses, and Lectures (Volume I)

Source: Nature, Addresses, and Lectures (Volume I)

“The Old Days, the Lost Days -- in the half-closed eyes of memory (and in fact) they never marched across a calendar; they huddled round a burning log, leaned on a certain table, or listened to those certain songs.”

Past Imagination Memories Reminiscence

Book:West with the Night

Source: West with the Night

“If you can imagine a thing, then it has already existed, somewhere, somewhen, somehow.”

Imagination Exist

Book:My Ancestor Was an Ancient Astronaut

Source: My Ancestor Was an Ancient Astronaut

“Merrick belonged to that class of reader who was able to forget with amazing ease the hand moving the characters behind the scenes of the novel.”

Imagination Reader

Book:The Map of Time

Source: The Map of Time

“They spell-caught the sounds of cat paws, the breath of fish, the spittle of birds, the hairs of a woman's beard, and the roots of a mountain, and spun them around the sinews of a bear. That made a bond that looked as fine as a ribbon of silk, but, since it was made of things not in this world, it was so strong nothing in the world could break it.”

Imagination Creativity Myth Imagery

Book:D'Aulaires' Book of Norse Myths

Source: D'Aulaires' Book of Norse Myths

“If you start most of your sentences with 'Why Can't', 'Why Not', or 'What if', you'll build a stronger imagination.”

Inspirational Imagination Dreamer

Book:Scratch

Source: Scratch

“People are made in such a way that if something inexplicable happens to them, they write it off to an overheated imagination.”

Book:The Stranger

Source: The Stranger

“If-Then" is a structured logic of humans' thought, who have memories and imagination in their mind. If both don't exist, Then this quote has never even been written.”

Imagination Memories If Then

Book:Master of Stupidity

Source: Master of Stupidity

“We should repeat to ourselves, every day: I am one of the billions dragging himself across the earth's surface. One, and no more. This banality justifies any conclusion, any behavior or action: debauchery, chastity, suicide, work, crime, sloth, or rebellion...Whence it follows that each man is right to do what he does.”

Philosophy Pessimism Justification Insignificance

Book:The Trouble with Being Born

Source: The Trouble with Being Born