AG2023_1066443a or shadow, imagination, and freedom

AG2023_1066443a

“There is a tree, by day,
That, at night,
Has a shadow,
A hand huge and black,
With fingers long and black.”

Angelina Weld Grimké, Tenebris



“To be free after all, is not to be undisciplined. I should say that the discipline of the imagination may in fact be the essential method or technique of both art and science.
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To discipline something, in the proper sense of the word, does not mean to repress it, but to train it–to encourage it to grow, and act, and be fruitful, whether it is a peach tree or a human mind. “