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The imagination is never governed, it is always the ruling and divine power.

The imagination is never governed, it is always the ruling and divine power.

John Ruskin
Inspirational, Power, Imagination
John Ruskin (2013). “The Stones of Venice -: The Fall”, p.152, Cosimo, Inc.

What is poetry? The suggestion, by the imagination, of noble grounds for the noble emotions.

John Ruskin
Imagination, Poetry, Suggestions
'Modern Painters' (1888) vol. 3

Wherever the human mind is healthy and vigorous in all its proportions, great in imagination and emotion no less than in intellect, and not overborne by an undue or hardened pre-eminence of the mere reasoning faculties, there the grotesque will exist in full energy.

John Ruskin
Imagination, Healthy, Mind
John Ruskin, John D. Rosenberg (1964). “The Genius of John Ruskin: Selections from His Writings”, p.214, University of Virginia Press

The virtue of the imagination is its reaching, by intuition and intensity, a more essential truth than is seen at the surface of things.

John Ruskin
Imagination, Intuition, Essentials
John Ruskin (2013). “Ruskin as Literary Critic”, p.124, Cambridge University Press

In general, when the imagination is at all noble, it is irresistible, and therefore those who can at all resist it ought to resist it. Be a plain topographer if you possibly can; if Nature meant you to be anything else, she will force you to it; but never try to be a prophet.

John Ruskin
Imagination, Trying, Noble
John Ruskin (1873). “Modern Painters”, p.18

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