#imagination

"Nature, to be commanded, must be obeyed. The imagination must be given not wings but weights."

"I don't write about what I know: I write in order to find out what I know."

"I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world."

"The soul without imagination is what an observatory would be without a telescope."

"Every production of an artist should be the expression of an adventure of his soul."

"The tree which moves some to tears of joy is in the eyes of others only a green thing that stands in the way. Some see nature all ridicule and deformity... and some scarce see nature at all. But to the eyes of the man of imagination, nature is imagination itself."

"A dream you dream alone is only a dream. A dream you dream together is reality."

"Imagination is like a muscle. I found out that the more I wrote, the bigger it got."

"Whether divine or human, it is precisely the imagination that fashions and recognizes the universe as meaningful, abiding, and valuable, that is to say, as real."

"...Isn't it splendid to think of all the things there are to find out about? It just makes me feel glad to be alive--it's such an interesting world. It wouldn't be half so interesting if we knew all about everything, would it? There'd be no scope for imagination then, would there?"

"The limits of your imagination create the boundaries of your world."

"We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful about what we pretend to be."

"The Universe is not only queerer than we suppose, but queerer than we can suppose."

"If you can dream it, you can do it."

"Those who fear the imagination condemn it: something childish, they say, something monsterish, misbegotten. Not all of us dream awake. But those of us who do have no choice."

"Imagination is at the root of much that passes for love."

"Martial (the main character of LOCUS SOLUS) has a very interesting conception of literary beauty: the work must contain nothing real, no observations about the world or the mind, nothing but completely imaginary constructions. These are in themselves ideas from an extrahuman world."

"The cost of oblivious daydreaming was always this moment of return, the realignment with what had been before and now seemed a little worse."

"With an open mind, you are the imagination of universal consciousness and the creation of the subconscious mind that wanders throughout the universe."

"If you had started doing anything two weeks ago, by today you would have been two weeks better at it."