<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=541324" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>2010/02/02 Illegal Sensations</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Most people delight in stomping out the <br>imagination, I work in a profession where <br>it is a crime to be an independent thinker <br>and dreaming is treason</div><div style="margin:10px 0">I try to keep my imagination unfettered as <br>I don’t like being an automaton, my col-<br>leagues assure me it is a pain-free state <br>of existence, no passion, no desire</div><div style="margin:10px 0">No feelings to interfere, just calm nirvana <br>in following rules and regulations and re-<br>fining rules through self-discipline, I fear <br>sliding gently into complacency</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Scared of accepting everything thing as it <br>is, I love people unconditionally but seek <br>protection against dying inside, when I <br>see a spark in somebody else </div><div style="margin:10px 0">I want to share in its warmth, there are so <br>few whose spontaneity is untouched, you <br>say I should become disciplined and join <br>the fray, stop speculation </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Seek no alternatives to reality and accept <br>being a non-entity like all translators who <br>read dictionaries and follow guidelines <br>blindly, happy with scholarly ideas</div><div style="margin:10px 0">When I tried that in my youth the pain in <br>my soul was unbearable, I would rather <br>embrace the pain of desire and passion <br>than grow cold, inured</div><div style="margin:10px 0">A passionless being without original <br>thought, beautiful dreams, illegal <br>sensations and wild fantasies…</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Unless you get paid to use your imagination, <br>you had better kill it, they say, it is a useless <br>commodity and only the best actors, writers <br>musicians and poets are allowed any </div><div style="margin:10px 0">If you are unknown, unsung and middle-class, <br>you shall be hung if imagination interferes with <br>your doing your duty, once you are cast as <br>Cinderella, you are forbidden to dream </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Susan Boyle is an exception that proves the rule, <br>I beg to differ, my ideal is to become a professional <br>dreamer and teach others to dream with me, and <br>I shall not give it up, I would rather die…</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Margaret+Alice">Margaret Alice</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=541324" data-title="2010/02/02 Illegal Sensations de Margaret Alice" data-description="Most people delight in stomping out the imagination, I work in a profession where it is a crime to be an independent thinker and dreaming is treason I try to keep my imagination unfettered as I don’t like being an automaton, my col- leagues..."></div> </div> </div>

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