Imagination doesn't always make you long for what you cannot have, but rather thrive in what you do not have.

Things are pretty, graceful, rich, elegant, handsome, but, until they speak to the imagination, not yet beautiful.

It is my opinion that the isolated mind loses its purchase on reality all too easily and becomes prone to fantasy.

Imagination was given to man to compensate him for what he is not; a sense of humor to console him for what he is.

Appealing workplaces are to be avoided. One wants a room with no view, so imagination can meet memory in the dark.

When an imaginative person gets into mental trouble, the line between seeming and being has a way of disappearing-

The virtue of maps, they show what can be done with limited space, they foresee that everything can happen therein.

Those of our writers who have possessed a vivid personal talent have been paralyzed by a want of social background.

The trouble with men is that they have limited minds. That's the troublewith women, too." ["Existence" (1975)]

When people go away they vanish, turn to nothing, stop being. They live only in memories, haunting the imagination.

Imagination must constantly run on a new track or it becomes lifeless. A living imagination is essential to prayer.

If you don't think the wheel should be reinvented then you are suffering from the lack of creative imagination.

A man is made in the rough-and-tumble of the world a lady emerges from the flossy back rooms of her own imagination.

I was very much provoked. Of course, I knew there are no fairies; but that needn't prevent my thinking there is.

Nothing ever happens like you imagine it will. But then again, if you don't imagine, nothing ever happens at all