Imaginary Part

Famous quotes containing the words imaginary and/or part:

“When an old Woman begins to doat [sic], and grow chargeable to a Parish, she is generally turned into a Witch, and fills the whole Country with extravagant Fancies, imaginary Distempers, and terrifying Dreams. In the mean time, the poor Wretch that is the innocent Occasion of so many Evils begins to be frighted at her self, and sometimes confesses secret Commerces and Familiarities that her Imagination forms in a delirious old Age.”
—Joseph Addison (1672–1719)

“I could be worse employed
Than as watcher of the void,
Whose part should be to tell
What star if any fell.”
—Robert Frost (1874–1963)