"There comes a period of the imagination..." - Quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson
There comes a period of the imagination to each--a later youth--the power of beauty, the power of looks, of poetry.
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“He is the rich man in whom the people are rich, and he is the poor man in whom the people are poor; and how to give access to themasterpieces of art and nature, is the problem of civilization.”
“I have no expectation that any man will read history aright who thinks that what was done in a remote age, by men whose names have resounded far, has any deeper sense than what he is doing today.”
“He is a good man, who can receive a gift well. We are either glad or sorry at a gift, and both emotions are unbecoming.”
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“Imagination is the deceptive part in man, the mistress of error and falsehood.”
“You can think about red. You can think about pink. You can think up a horse. Oh, the THINKS you can think!”
“The power of reading a great book is that you start thinking like the author. For those magical moments while you are immersed in the forests of Arden, you are William Shakespeare; while you are shipwrecked on Treasure Island, you are Robert Louis Stevenson; while you are communing with nature at Walden, you are Henry David Thoreau. You start to think like they think, feel like they feel, and use imagination as they would. Their references become your own, and you carry these with you long after you've turned the last page.”
More on Beauty
“The world is beautiful, but has a disease called man.”
“The unlike is joined together, and from differences results the most beautiful harmony.”
“One day," you said to me, "I saw the sunset forty-four times!" And a little later you added: "You know-- one loves the sunset, when one is so sad..." "Were you so sad, then?" I asked, "on the day of the forty-four sunsets?" But the little prince made no reply.”