Jane HirshfieldTo plunge one thing into the shape or nature of another is a fundamental gesture of creative insight, part of how we make for ourselves a world more expansive, deft, fertile, and startling in richness.
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To plunge one thing into the shape or nature of another is a fundamental gesture of creative insight, part of how we make for ourselves a world more expansive, deft, fertile, and startling in richness. This quote is an excellent example of how much creativity is at work in human thought. It is also an example of the power to create something which cannot exist without the creative contortion of imagination. The work produced by imagination is not dependent on the existence of what the mind produces. But it takes imagination to produce something new.
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