From John Keats: “My imagination is a monastery, and I am its monk.”
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Quote of the day 06/05/25
From R.H. Blyth: “…when we think about ourselves, we are deeply conscious of our physical pains and pleasure, but if we forget ourselves, the body too, becoming one with the mind, is hardly aware of its pain and pleasure, cold and heat. How much our happiness depends upon the condition of our minds, is shownContinue reading “Quote of the day 06/05/25”
Quote of the day 06/01/25
From R.H. Blyth: “I have already given my interpretation of what are called figures of speech and will now give a definition of imagination as the faculty was exercised by Wordsworth himself. It is the power by which we become so united, or better, by which we realise our original unity with persons, things, situations,Continue reading “Quote of the day 06/01/25”
Quote of the day 02/19/25
From Francis Bacon: “Imagination was given to man to compensate him for what he is not; a sense of humor to console him for what he is.”
Quote of the day 12/29/24
From William Blake: “The tree which moves some to tears of joy is in the eyes of others only a green thing that stands in the way. Some see nature all ridicule and deformity… and some scarce see nature at all. But to the eyes of the man of imagination, nature is imagination itself.”
Quote of the day 12/28/24
From William Blake: “The imagination is not a state: it is the human existence itself.”
Quote of the day 12/26/24
From William Blake: “What is now proved was once only imagined.”
Quote of the day 09/11/24
From Ludwig Wittgenstein: “Uttering a word is like striking a note on the keyboard of the imagination.”
Quote of the day 07/30/24
From George Berkeley: “A ray of imagination or of wisdom may enlighten the universe, and glow into remotest centuries.”
Quote of the day 01/06/24
From Immanuel Kant: “Happiness is not an ideal of reason, but of imagination.”
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