"Love of beauty is taste. The creation of beauty is art.

Things are pretty, graceful, rich, elegant, handsome, but, until they speak to the imagination, not yet beautiful.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson ~












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"Bare lists of words are found suggestive to an imaginative and excited mind.
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"Science does not know its debt to imagination.
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