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Children's literature1 quote
Max stepped into his private boat and waved good-bye and sailed back over a year and in and out of weeks and through a day and into the night of his very own room where he found his supper waiting for him and it was still hot. — Maurice Sendak · 1963History (play)1 quote
O, who can hold a fire in his hand
By thinking on the frosty Caucasus?
Or cloy the hungry edge of appetite
By bare imagination of a feast?
Or wallow naked in December snow
By thinking on fantastic summer’s heat? — William Shakespeare · 1595Philosophical literature1 quote
They are ill discoverers that think there is no land, when they can see nothing but sea. — Francis Bacon · 1605Political literature1 quote
When the imagination sleeps, words are emptied of their meaning. — Albert Camus · 1957Problem play1 quote
I am giddy; expectation whirls me round.
Th' imaginary relish is so sweet
That it enchants my sense. — William Shakespeare · 1603Psychological literature1 quote
Without this playing with fantasy no creative work has ever yet come to birth. The debt we owe to the play of imagination is incalculable. — Carl Jung · 1921Scientific literature1 quote
Every act of perception, is to some degree an act of creation, and every act of memory is to some degree an act of imagination. — Gerald M. Edelman · 2000Travel writing1 quote
Imagination labors best in distant fields. — Mark Twain · 1869