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Imaginative Quotes

Symbols are the imaginative signposts of life.

Symbols are the imaginative signposts of life.

Margot Asquith (1933). “More Memories”

Ideals are an imaginative understanding of that which is desirable in that which is possible.

Walter Lippmann, Clinton Rossiter, James Lare (1982). “The Essential Lippmann: A Political Philosophy for Liberal Democracy”, p.392, Harvard University Press

What matters is not publication or success (success is bad for your prose) but the practice of the imaginative act. Our damaged values depend on it.

"Janet Burroway talks about writing lives". The Chicago Manual of Style Interview, cmosshoptalk.com. April 4, 2014.

That instinct for human character that is perhaps inherent in an imaginative writer.

"Getting to Know the General: the Story of an Involvement". Book by Graham Greene, 1984.

Milton had a highly imaginative, Cowley a very fanciful mind.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1856). “The Complete Works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge: With an Introductory Essay Upon His Philosophical and Theological Opinions”, p.202

Reading is an active, imaginative act; it takes work.

"Khaled Hosseini on And the Mountains Echoed". Interview with Lois Alter Mark, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 21, 2013.

Whether the poet is living or dead, they're part of our imaginative community.

"Road Trip". Interview with Ali Liebegott, logger.believermag.com. October 25, 2013.