T. S. Eliot Quotes, Ideas Quotes, Imagination Quotes

When forced to work within a strict framework, the imagination is taxed to its utmost and will produce its richest ideas. Given total freedom, the work is likely to sprawl.

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For strange effects and extraordinary combinations we must go to life itself, which is always far more daring than any effort of the imagination.

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But oh! each visitation Suspends what nature gave me any my birth, My shaping spirit of Imagination.

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The history of reform is always identical; it is the comparison of the idea with the fact. Our modes of living are not agreeable to our imagination. We suspect they are unworthy. We arraign our daily employments.

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Imagination? It is the one thing beside honesty that a good writer must have. The more he learns from experience the more he can imagine.

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It is the lava of the imagination whose eruption prevents an earthquake.

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The trouble with many religions, accused of wishful thinking, is that they are not wishful enough. They show a deplorable lack of imagination.

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Finally, good sense is the body of poetic genius, fancy its drapery, motion its life, and imagination the soul that is everywhere and in each; and forms all into one graceful and intelligent whole.

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Cowardice, as distinguished from panic, is almost always simply a lack of ability to suspend the functioning of the imagination.

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Humans consist of body, mind and imagination. Our bodies are faulty, our minds untrustworthy, but our imagination has made us remarkable.

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Art degraded, Imagination denied.

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We balance probabilities and choose the most likely. It is the scientific use of the imagination.

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The nose of a mob is its imagination. By this, at any time, it can be quietly led.

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But I'm never gonna get to a point in my life where what it costs to shoot a movie is going to determine what it is. The limits of my imagination is the only thing that's gonna stop me.

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Use your imagination only on the future, never on the present or the past.

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Imagination is vastly more important than intelligence.

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Use makes a better soldier than the most urgent considerations of duty,--familiarity with danger enabling him to estimate the danger. He sees how much is the risk, and is not afflicted with imagination; knows practically Marshal Saxe's rule, that every soldier killed costs the enemy his weight in lead.

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If my future were black, it was better surely to face it like a man than to attempt to brighten it by mere will-o’-the-wisps of the imagination.

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If the imagination is to transcend and transform experience it has to question, to challenge, to conceive of alternatives, perhaps to the very life you are living at the moment.

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Without freedom, there is no creation.

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