#magi

The moment of inspiration can come from memory, or language, or the imagination, or experience - anything that makes an impression forcibly enough for language to form. ↗

— Carol Ann Duffy

#come #enough #experience #forcibly #form

Sherrie would be there, and the last time I’d seen her at a social event she burst into tears when she saw me and ran out of the room. You’re upset, I’d yelled after her, meanly. ↗

— Aimee Bender

#magic-power #snark #upset #food

It is living and ceasing to live that are imaginary solutions. Existence is elsewhere. ↗

— Andre Breton

#elsewhere #existence #imaginary #live #living

If beggars do not hate the rest of us, they are even more abject than I had imagined. ↗

— Mason Cooley

#beggars #even #had #hate #i

I can imagine that the Iraqis undertake the destruction out of fear. If they had denied it, if they had said no, that certainly would have played into the hands of those that would like to take armed action immediately. I have no illusions in that regard. ↗

— Hans Blix

#armed #certainly #denied #destruction #fear

When I don't know what the music is going to be for a scene, I imagine some sort of orchestration going on and damned if they don't usually come up with a similar kind of thing. ↗

— Patty Duke

#damned #going #i #imagine #kind

Free imagination is the inestimable prerogative of youth and it must be cherished and guarded as a treasure. ↗

— Felix Bloch

#free #guarded #imagination #inestimable #must

In the 20s, you were a face. And that was enough. In the 30s, you also had to be a voice. And your voice had to match your face, if you can imagine that. ↗

— Joan Blondell

#enough #face #had #imagine #match

Fathers and mothers have lost the idea that the highest aspiration they might have for their children is for them to be wise... specialized competence and success are all that they can imagine. ↗

— Allan Bloom

#aspiration #children #competence #fathers #highest

There is no real teacher who in practice does not believe in the existence of the soul, or in a magic that acts on it through speech. ↗

— Allan Bloom

#believe #does #existence #magic #practice