Josephine Wall Art
As noble Art has survived noble nature, so too she marches
ahead of it, fashioning and awakening by her inspiration.
Before Truth sends her triumphant light into the depths
of the heart, imagination catches its rays, and the peaks
of humanity will be glowing when humid night still lingers
in the valleys.
When you begin to sense that your imagination is the place
where you are most divine, you feel called to clean out of
your mind all the worn and shabby furniture of thought.
You wish to refurbish yourself with living thought so that
you can begin to see.
The theoretician believes in logic and believes that he despises
dreams, intuition, and poetry. He does not recognize that these
three fairies have only disguised themselves in order to dazzle
him.... He does not know that he owes his greatest discoveries
to them.
Imagination is usually regarded as a synonym for the unreal.
Yet is true imagination healthful and real, no more likely
to mislead than the coarse senses. Indeed, the power of
imagination makes us infinite.
Imagination is not antagonistic to knowledge. On the contrary,
the highest imagination is that which can assimilate all kinds
of knowledge and make use of it as a vantage ground from which
to soar to higher things.
My imagination makes me human and makes me a fool; it gives
me all the world and exiles me from it.
Johann Friedrich von Schiller
John O'Donohue
Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
John Muir
John Collier
Ursula K. LeGuin
lovely, thank you for these :)
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