The ingenious are always fanciful, and the truly imaginative never otherwise than analytic.
Edgar Allan Poe in The Murders in the Rue Morgue
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It will be found, in fact, that the ingenious are always fanciful, and the truly imaginative never otherwise than analytic.
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We need to strengthen our analytic capacity in Washington, we need to centralize the anti-terrorism effort.
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Papa always makes it clear that he would like to know me as much more rational and lucid than the girls and women he gets to know during his analytic hours.
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Imagination has brought mankind through the dark ages to its present state of civilization. Imagination led Columbus to discover America. Imagination led Franklin to discover electricity. Imagination has given us the steam engine, the telephone, the talking-machine, and the automobile, for these things had to be dreamed of before they became realities. So I believe that dreams--daydreams, you know, with your eyes wide open and your brain machinery whizzing--are likely to lead to the betterment of the world. The imaginative child will become the imaginative man or woman most apt to invent, and therefore to foster, civilization.
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A Psychedelic God - A Thank You Note
The drift of a percussion nib
A mental voyager, a bohemian cosmonaut
Exploring uncharted frontiers of the whimsical mind
In the vastness, the infinitude of galactic spaces
Perforating ingenious black holes
Chutes of inspiration, free falling to the plea of gravities
As the wandering mind chisels on stone paper
Its journeys and treks, legendary tales exuding the essence
Of an overgenerous chimera, surpassing sight's farthest prophecies
Cerebral odysseys transcending mythical epics, medieval folklore
To capture the nomadic spirit, yet the exemplary purity
Of the suppleness of creation, masterminded
By another horizon-less wayfarer, an apical journeyman
A celestial potter, nom de plume ‘Lord the creator'
As a humble poet parts with a thanksgiving note
For the gift of a boundless providence, to sketch his own tale of fatum
As he tributes the imaginative force of a psychedelic God
poem by Dilantha Gunawardana
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My psycho-analytic work has convinced me that when in the baby's mind the conflicts between love and hate arise, and the fears of losing the loved one become active, a very important step is made in development.
quote by Melanie Klein
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What Is This That I Do?
What is this that I do?
What is this?
And what is it?
What is this that I do?
Tell me,
What is this that I do?
Tell me,
What is this that I do?
What is this?
And what is it?
What is this that I do?
Tell me,
What is it?
And what is this?
What is this that I do?
Am I trying to be analytic.
What is this that I do?
Everyday and with commitment too!
What is this that I do?
Tell me,
What is this?
And what is it?
What is this that I do?
Write and type for my own excitement?
What is this that I do?
To do it for a 'whom' to prove?
What is this that I do?
And what intention is this meant?
Am I doing this to make some sense?
What is this that I do?
For who?
What is this?
And what is it?
What is this that I do?
Tell me,
Am I doing it for comprehension?
What is this that I do?
Am I doing it to understand?
What is this that I do?
Am I doing this to blow a mind?
And finding that I'm blowing mine.
What is this that I do?
Am I doing this because I can?
What is this that I do?
What is this?
And what is it?
What is this that I do?
Tell me,
What is this that I do?
Tell me,
What is this that I do?
Am I doing this because I can?
What is this that I do?
What is this?
And what is it?
What is this that I do?
Am I doing this because I can?
What is this that I do?
Am I doing this because I can?
poem by Lawrence S. Pertillar
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1492. As children we were taught to memorize this year with pride and joy as the year people began living full and imaginative lives on the continent of North America. Actually, people had been living full and imaginative lives on the continent of North America for hundreds of years before that. 1492 was simply the year sea pirates began to rob, cheat, and kill them.
Kurt Vonnegut in Breakfast of Champions
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To impress others we must be earnest; to amuse them, it is only necessary to be kindly and fanciful.
quote by Henry Tuckerman
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Knowledge must come through action you can have no test which is not fanciful, save by trial.
Knowledge must come through action; you can have no test which is not fanciful, save by trial.
Sophocles in Trachiniae
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Indestructible
Slow on the uptake
long on the sleeves
hiding the tattoos
more fanciful
than dreams.
poem by Vince Gullaci
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The most imaginative people are the most credulous, for them everything is possible.
quote by Alexander Chase
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Man, an ingenious assembly of portable plumbing.
quote by Christopher Morley
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Ideals are an imaginative understanding of that which is desirable in that which is possible.
quote by Walter Lippmann
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Those are fun, especially if they're going to shoot them in four weeks, because you know they're not going to mess with anything you do, so it can be very imaginative.
quote by John Sayles
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Symbols are the imaginative signposts of life.
quote by Margot Asquith
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God is only a great imaginative experience.
quote by David Herbert Lawrence
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Reading is sometimes an ingenious device for avoiding thought.
quote by Arthur Helps
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Barometer, n.: An ingenious instrument which indicates what kind of weather we are having.
quote by Ambrose Bierce
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