Imagined

Famous quotes containing the word imagined:

“She shut her eyes
and imagined her lover on the bed,
hugged herself tight
with her own loose-bangled arms.”
—Hla Stavhana (c. 50 A.D.)

“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)

“Our argument ... will result, not upon logic by itself—though without logic we should never have got to this point—but upon the fortunate contingent fact that people who would take this logically possible view, after they had really imagined themselves in the other man’s position, are extremely rare.”
—Richard M. Hare (b. 1919)