Imagination is a very high sort of seeing, which does not come by stud…

Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Imagination is a very high sort of seeing, which does not come by study, but by the intellect being where and what it sees, by sharing the path, or circuits of things through forms, and so making them translucid to others. ✨ Ralph Waldo Emerson (2012). Self-Reliance and Other Essays, p.75, Courier Corporation
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