"I rejoice in my spine, as in the firm audacious staff of that flag which I fling half out to the world."

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[The imagination] . . . inspires an audacious mental habit. We are as elastic as the gas of gunpowder, and . . . a word dropped in conversation, sets free our fancy, and instantly our heads are bathed with galaxies, and our feet tread the floor of the Pit.

— Marsilio Ficino