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“Poetry simultaneously addresses our intellect and our physical senses, our emotions, imagination, intuition, and memory without asking us to divide them.”

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Book:Poetry as Enchantment

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Dana Gioia

Dana Gioia, born on December 24, 1950, is an accomplished American poet known for his profound emotions and rich imagination in his works. more

“A memory is just an imagining inclined towards the past, after all. You are bound to relive the same mistakes because you keep imagining your own memories. But consider this: The former things shall not be remembered; the old that’ve passed. If your future, which is in desire, can become your past, a memory like any other, then by some mysterious miracle it will become your present too”

Imagination Fantasy Manifestation Daydreaming Manifesting Metafiction Neville Goddard

Book:Journeys Beyond Earth

Source: Journeys Beyond Earth

“He had once thought that only money mattered. But he has since discovered that money matters only because it can buy power, and power matters only if it is exercised with imagination and without conscience.”

Imagination Money Power Conscience Thriller Dean Koontz

Book:The Darkest Evening of the Year

Source: The Darkest Evening of the Year

“How do you fix a broken town? You let the artists have a go. Not because they will take it back to its original state, but because they will take all the broken pieces and create a beautiful mosaic.”

Art Imagination Creativity Economy Towns Artists Placemaking

Author:Nate Hamon

“The more thoroughly a person understands life, the less he will mock, though in the end he might still mock the "thoroughness of his understanding.”

Life Philosophy Understanding Understanding Life

Book:Human, All Too Human: A Book for Free Spirits

Source: Human, All Too Human: A Book for Free Spirits

“What If is like opening Pandora's box, but instead of unleashing chaos, it unleashes your inner genius. It’s the spark that ignites your creativity, the fuel that powers your innovation, and the key that unlocks the door to your endless possibilities. So, the next time you find yourself pondering “what if,” don’t hold back. Let your imagination run wild, embrace the unknown, and dare to dream big. After all, the greatest stories begin with those two simple words: “What if…”

Imagination Curiosity Possibilities Speculation Whatif Dreambig Alternaterealities Creativethinking Endlesspotential Exploreoptions

Author:Life is Positive

“Knowledge is the outcome of imagination, as a physical appearance that prevails.”

Imagination

Author:Ehsan Sehgal

“I want to create the type of cinema that shows by not showing. This is very different from most movies nowadays, which are not literally pornographic but are in essence pornographic, because they show so much that they take away any possibility of imagining things for ourselves. My aim is to give the chance to create as much as possible in our minds, through creativity and imagination. I want to tap the hidden information that’s within yourself and that you probably didn’t even know existed inside you.”

Imagination Creativity Cinema Filmmaking

Author:Abbas Kiarostami

“I could go and seek riches in the Orient, but not the riches of the soul, because I am my soul's riches, and I am where I am, with or without the Orient. Travel is for those who cannot feel.”

Soul Self Imagination Travel Riches Feeling

Author:Fernando Pessoa

“To think morally involves reimagining one's life story in growing response to others in their very otherness from oneself.”

Philosophy Imagination Morality Life Story Otherness

Book:Ethics in Light of Childhood

Source: Ethics in Light of Childhood

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