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Quotes About Imagination

He is the true enchanter, whose spell operates, not upon the senses, but upon the imagination and the heart.
~ Washington Irving
I am always at a loss to know how much to believe of my own stories.
~ Washington Irving
His appetite for the marvelous, and his powers of digesting it, were equally extraordinary
~ Washington Irving
For my part, I love to give myself up to the illusion of poetry. A hero of fiction that never existed is just as valuable to me as a hero of history that existed a thousand years ago.
~ Washington Irving
He is indeed the true enchanter, whose spell operates, not upon the senses, but upon the imagination and the heart.
~ Washington Irving
On mounting a rising ground, which brought the figure of his fellow-traveller in relief against the sky, gigantic in height, and muffled in a cloak, Ichabod was horror-struck on perceiving that he was headless!--but his horror was still more increased on observing that the head, which should have rested on his shoulders, was carried before him on the pommel of his saddle!
~ Washington Irving
Some minds corrode, and grow inactive, under the loss of personal liberty; others grow morbid and irritable; but it is the nature of the poet to become tender and imaginative in the loneliness of confinement.
~ Washington Irving
No importa cuán despierto hayas sido, una vez te adentras en las sombras de esta región ya no puedes permanecer ajeno a su influjo; la ensoñación mágica de su atmósfera se apodera de ti al instante;
~ Washington Irving
There are certain half-dreaming moods of mind, in which we naturally steal away from noise and glare, and seek some quiet haunt, where we may indulge our reveries and build our air castles undisturbed. —Washington Irving, "The Mutability of Literature
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