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Imagination is not a talent of some men but is the health of every man.

I admit that twice two makes four is an excellent thing, but if we are to give everything its due, twice two makes five is sometimes a very charming thing too.

Imagination is the air of mind

The curse of human nature is imagination. When a long-anticipated moment comes, we always find it pitched a note too low.

From ghoulies and ghosties and long-legged beasties And things that go bump in the night, good Lord deliver us!

To reduce the imagination to a state of slavery --even though it would mean the elimination of what is commonly called happiness --is to betray all sense of absolute justice within oneself. Imagination alone offers me some intimation of what can be.

My subject enlarges itself, becomes methodized and define, and the whole, though it be long, stands almost complete and finished in my mind, so that I can survey it, like a fine picture or a beautiful statute, at a glance.

Nor do I hear in my imagination the parts successively, I hear them all at once. What a delight this is! All this inventing, this producing, takes place in a pleasing, lively dream.

Imagination is the real and eternal world of which this vegetable universe is but a faint shadow.

Memory and imagination help [a man] as he works. Not only his own thoughts, but the thoughts of the men of past ages guide his hands; and, as part of the human race, he creates.

But thou, that did'st appear so fair To fond imagination, Dost rival in the light of day Her delicate creation.