Brenda Ueland:
The imagination needs moodling, - long, inefficient, happy idling, dawdling and puttering.

Cristina Garcia:
Imagination, like a memory, can transform lies to truths.

Emily Dickinson:
The Possible's slow fuse is lit / By the Imagination.

Ethel Watts Mumford:
Imagination makes cowards of us all.

Gertrude Atherton:
The curse of human nature is imagination. When a long anticipated moment comes, we always find it pitched a note too low.

L.E. Landon:
Imagination is to love what gas is to a balloon - that which raises it from earth.

Lauren Bacall:
Imagination is the highest kite that can fly.

Marie Von Ebner-Eschenbach:
Without imagination, there is no goodness, no wisdom.

Nancy Hale:
Imagination is new reality in the process of being created. It represents the part of the existing order that can still grow.

Marian Anderson :
When you stop having dreams and ideals -- well, you might as well stop altogether.

Rachel Carson :
If a child is to keep alive his inborn sense of wonder without any such gift from the fairies, he needs the companionship of at least one adult who can share it, rediscovering with him the joy, excitement, and mystery of the world we live in.

 

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