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Love is a canvas furnished by nature and embroidered by imagination. -- Voltaire
Musicals are, by nature, theatrical, meaning poetic, meaning having to move the audience's imagination and create a suspension of disbelief, by which I mean there's no fourth wall. -- Stephen Sondheim
A poet ought not to pick nature's pocket. Let him borrow, and so borrow as to repay by the very act of borrowing. Examine nature accurately, but write from recollection, and trust more to the imagination than the memory. -- Samuel Taylor Coleridge
I find that nothing but very close and intense application to subjects of a scientific nature now seems at all to keep my imagination from running wild, or to stop up the void which seems to be left in my mind from a want of excitement. -- Ada Lovelace
No two dramatists think or write alike. Ten thousand playwrights can take the same premise, as they have done since Shakespeare, and not one play will resemble the other except in the premise. Your knowledge, your understanding of human nature, and your imagination will take care of that. -- Lajos Egri
Scientists and philosophers tend to treat knowledge, imagination and love as if they were all very separate parts of human nature. But when it comes to children, all three are deeply entwined. Children learn the truth by imagining all the ways the world could be, and testing those possibilities. -- Alison Gopnik
The face of nature and civilization in this our country is to a certain point a very sufficient literary field. But it will yield its secrets only to a really grasping imagination. To write well and worthily of American things one need even more than elsewhere to be a master. -- Henry James
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. -- William Blake
St. Pope John XXIII called for the Second Vatican Council because he understood, as no Holy Father had in a long time, religion spoke to and found its language and symbols - its entire sense of the sacramental nature of existence - in the imagination that reveals not just the penalties of living, but the wonder and awe of our existence. -- Eugene Kennedy
Imagination is a force of nature. -- Saul Bellow
Luck and nature shapes our imagination. -- Kishore Bansal
Nature has no outline. Imagination has. -- William Blake
Nature's imagination far surpasses our own. -- Richard P. Feynman
The imagination is man's power over nature. -- Wallace Stevens
My imagination was no competition for nature. -- Jim Toomey
The imagination is both interpretative and creative in nature. -- Napoleon Hill
My imagination has always been inspired by nature's vision -- Gregory Colbert
The imagination is one of the forces of nature. -- Wallace Stevens
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Under the force of the imagination, nature itself is changed. -- Peter Ackroyd
Even when we look at nature, our imagination constructs the picture. -- Eugene Delacroix
To the eyes of the man of imagination, nature is imagination itself. -- William Blake
Nature's imagination is so boundless compared to our own meager human imagination. -- James Cameron
In the world of words the imagination is one of the forces of nature. -- Larry Niven
In the world of words, the imagination is one of the forces of nature. -- Wallace Stevens
Nature uses human imagination to lift her work of creation to even higher levels. -- Luigi Pirandello
See that the imagination of nature is far, far greater than the imagination of man. -- Richard P. Feynman
Nature and the imagination seem to be the precursors to involvement in the psychedelic experience. -- Terence McKenna
The imagination, give it the least license, dives deeper and soars higher than Nature goes. -- Henry David Thoreau
Nature, to be commanded, must be obeyed. The imagination must be given not wings but weights. -- Henry Adams
But who can paint like Nature? Can imagination boast, amid its gay creation, hues like hers? -- James Thomson
But see that the imagination of nature is far, far greater than the imagination of man. -- Richard P. Feynman
I think nature's imagination Is so much greater than man's, she's never going to let us relax -- Richard P. Feynman
Deep inside, we still have a longing to be reconnected with the nature that shaped our imagination -- Janine Benyus
But oh! each visitation Suspends what nature gave me any my birth, My shaping spirit of Imagination. -- Samuel Taylor Coleridge
I think nature's imagination Is so much greater than man's, she's never going to let us relax -- Richard P. Feynman
We are not to tell nature what she's gotta be. She's always got better imagination than we have. -- Richard P. Feynman
Wit penetrates; humor envelops. Wit is a function of verbal intelligence; humor is imagination operating on good nature. -- Peggy Noonan
Fishing, by its very nature, nourishes the imagination, feeding it with a potent fuel of hope and desire. -- Tony Bishop
Imagination alone is not enough, because the reality of nature is far more wondrous than anything we can imagine -- Neil deGrasse Tyson
It is the marriage of the soul with nature that makes the intellect fruitful, and gives birth to imagination -- Henry David Thoreau
Imagination does not enable us to invent as many different contradictions as there are by nature in every heart. -- Francois de La Rochefoucauld
I believe fervently in the nature, in truth and imagination, I believe in the blood, in life, words, and motivations. -- Gael Garcia Bernal
I should like the fields tinged with red, the rivers yellow and the trees painted blue. Nature has no imagination. -- Charles Baudelaire
Love is ...not a fact in nature of which we become aware, but rather a creation of the human imagination. -- Joseph Wood Krutch
Compared to Nature we suffer a poverty of imagination; it is thus much easier for us to uncover than to invent. -- Douglas Lenat
As usual, nature's imagination far surpasses our own, as we have seen from the other theories which are subtle and deep. -- Richard P. Feynman
Nature declares herself in her works. What exists beyond her domain, if anything, becomes necessarily a matter of faith or imagination. -- Harvey Rice
Anyone with great imagination, of course, is intuitive. Knowledge of any nature, unless put into practical use, becomes of little effect. -- Edgar Cayce
Pornography is human imagination in tense theatrical action; its violations are a protest against the violations of our freedom by nature. -- Camille Paglia
Imagination is a powerful agent for creating, as it were, a second nature out of the material supplied to it by actual nature. -- Immanuel Kant
The true nature of the world was weirder than any bizarre fabric that anyone might weave from the warp and weft of imagination's loom. -- Dean Koontz
No one knows the nature of God, or even if God exists. In a sense, all of our religions are literary works of the imagination. -- Alan Lightman
There is no better way of exercising the imagination than the study of law. No poet ever interpreted nature as freely as a lawyer interprets the truth. -- Jean Giraudoux
Out with stereotypes, feminism proclaims. But stereotypes are the west's stunning sexual personae, the vehicles of art's assault against nature. The moment there is imagination, there is myth. -- Camille Paglia
A fine woman shews her charms to most advantage when she seems most to conceal them. The finest bosom in nature is not so fine as what imagination forms. -- Richard Gregory
The forces of the sea give rise to imagination, which reflects them according to the nature and disposition of the perceiver. The sea itself is undifferentiated and without bias. -- F.T. McKinstry
Natural objects themselves, even when they make no claim to beauty, excite the feelings, and occupy the imagination. Nature pleases, attracts, delights, merely because it is nature. We recognize in it an Infinite Power. -- Wilhelm von Humboldt

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