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About This Author
My name is Joy, and I love to write.
Why poetry, here? Because poetry uplifts its writer, and if she is lucky enough, her readers, too. Around us, so many objects abound to write about. Once a poet starts with a smallest, most trivial object, he shall discover that his pen will spill out what is most delicate or most majestic hidden inside him. Since the classics sometimes dealt with lofty subjects with a lofty language, a person with poetry in his soul may incline to emulate that. That is understandable. Poetry does that to a person: it enlarges the soul and gives it wings. Yet, to really soar, a poet needs to take off from the ground.
 
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Daily Cascade #1082346 added January 14, 2025 at 10:48am
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On Imagination
Prompt: Your Imagination
"My imagination makes me human and makes me a fool; it gives me all the world and exiles me from it."
Ursula K. Le Guin
What are your thoughts on this quote and to what extend does your imagination play a role in your writing?
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I think I used to be more imaginative when I was younger. Now in my old age, I might tend to be a lot more realistic. As to what extend my imagination plays a role in my writing, I think what I write follows the realism of my looking at the world with old eyes. 
Imagination, however, is a unique gift, and I sometimes wonder if other living beings have it. Through imagination, we can see in our minds' eyes many possibilities in this world and beyond its immediate reality. Through imagination, we dream, empathize, and create.
In fact, it is imagination that changes and reshapes the world around us.
On the other hand, imagination can also alienate those of us from the world and our loved ones to a great extent. This may be because we people are vulnerable to false hopes, illusions, and pain, since we become tormented when we can't get what we can imagine. As a result, we may become depressed and unsatisfied.
In a nutshell, this quote refers to imagination as being both a strength and a weakness. It makes us both human and foolish.
Yet, imagination is a complex mechanism. If we can use it with one foot in reality, we can use it wisely and enjoy its power and beauty.
Remember Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, J.K. Rowling, Lewis Carroll, Roald Dahl? Also, Charles Dickens, Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Faulkner, Kafka and Hemingway? Even when writing a realistic story, imagination makes it much more delectable. This may be why I like reading much more than watching a movie because reading allows a lot more space to my imagination.
So yes, the best writers are the most imaginative ones. And so are the writers in Writing.com.  
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