What is the imagination? Only an arm or weapon of the interior energy;…

Ralph Waldo Emerson
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What is the imagination? Only an arm or weapon of the interior energy; only the precursor of the reason. ✨ Ralph Waldo Emerson (1971). The Collected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Society and solitude, p.108, Harvard University Press
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What is the imagination? Only an arm or weapon of the interior energy; only the precursor of the reason. ✨ Ralph Waldo Emerson (1971). The Collected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Society and solitude, p.108, Harvard University Press

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