Michael Edwards

A couple more quotes from reading On Imagination.

Mary Ruefule writes:

“You can colonize a reader the way you can colo-nize a country. The imagination is not a privileged act; everyone engages in it. The imagination allows me to give a credence and an integrity to any existence outside of myself.”

And later:

“… too often poets discriminate between imaginative and unimaginative acts. They are trying to be aware, always, of the difference. But if you stop trying to discriminate, if you stop discriminating, you can push the envelope of the mundane in an effort to see if it paradoxically opens a new door to the imaginative. In other words, unimaginative acts can lead to imaginative ones.”