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Imagination is an almost divine faculty which, without recourse to any philosophical method, immediately perceives everything: the secret and intimate connections between things, correspondences and analogies.
CHARLES BAUDELAIRE, New Notes on E. Poe, part III
Imagination is more important than knowledge.
ALBERT EINSTEIN, On Science
Here in your mind you have complete privacy. Here there's no difference between what is and what could be.
Imagination has given us the steam engine, the telephone, the talking-machine, and the automobile, for these things had to be dreamed of before they became realities.
L. FRANK BAUM, intro, The Lost Princess of Oz
Imagination is the eye of the soul.
The unreal is more powerful than the real. Because nothing is as perfect as you can imagine it. Because it's only intangibles, ideas, concepts, beliefs, fantasies that last. Stone crumbles. Wood rots. People, well, they die.
Imagination, n. A warehouse of facts, with poet and liar in joint ownership.
AMBROSE BIERCE, The Devil's Dictionary
A spider conducts operations that resemble those of a weaver, and a bee puts to shame many an architect in the construction of her cells. But what distinguishes the worst architect from the best of bees is this, that the architect raises his structure in imagination before he erects it in reality.
The imagination is man’s power over nature.
WALLACE STEVENS, "Adagia," Opus Posthumous
The imagination is the spur of delights ... all depends upon it, it is the mainspring of everything; now, is it not by means of the imagination one knows joy? Is it not of the imagination that the sharpest pleasures arise?
MARQUIS DE SADE, Philosophy in the Bedroom
Imagination is the voice of daring. If there is anything Godlike about God it is that. He dared to imagine everything.
Everything that happens is at least one dimension smaller than you've imagined it to be.
WOLFGANG HILDESHEIMER, Nightpiece
Skill without imagination is craftsmanship and gives us many useful objects such as wickerwork picnic baskets. Imagination without skill gives us modern art.
TOM STOPPARD, "Artist Descending a Staircase"
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, Harper's magazine, Aug. 1990
The imagination, give it the least license, dives deeper and soars higher than Nature goes.
HENRY DAVID THOREAU, The Writings of Henry David Thoreau
Imagination is the highest kite that one can fly.
LAUREN BACALL, Lauren Bacall By Myself
They who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night.
EDGAR ALLAN POE, "Eleonora"
What is now proved was once only imagined.
WILLIAM BLAKE, The Marriage of Heaven and Hell
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