Imagined

Famous quotes containing the word imagined:

    Thus with imagined wing our swift scene flies
    In motion of no less celerity
    Than that of thought.
    William Shakespeare (1564–1616)

    We have imagined ourselves a special creation, set apart from other humans. In the last twentieth century, we see that our poverty is as absolute as that of the poorest nations. We have attempted to deny the human condition in our quest for power after power. It would be well for us to rejoin the human race, to accept our essential poverty as a gift, and to share our material wealth with those in need.
    Robert Neelly Bellah (20th century)

    At the round earth’s imagined corners, blow
    Your trumpets, angels, and arise, arise
    From death, you numberless infinities
    Of souls, and to your scattered bodies go,
    John Donne (1572–1631)