The primary imagination I hold to be the living power and prime agent …

Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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The primary imagination I hold to be the living power and prime agent of all human perception, and as a repetition in the finite mind of the eternal act of creation in the infinite I Am. ✨ Biographia Literaria ch. 13 (1817)
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The primary imagination I hold to be the living power and prime agent of all human perception, and as a repetition in the finite mind of the eternal act of creation in the infinite I Am. ✨ Biographia Literaria ch. 13 (1817)

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