The imagination is the liberty of the mind It is intrpeid and eager and the extreme of its achievement lies in abstraction.

We say God and the imagination are one... How high that highest candle lights the dark.

The imagination loses vitality as it ceases to adhere to what is real. When it adheres to the unreal and intensifies what is unreal, while its first effect may be extraordinary, that effect is the maximum effect that it will ever have.

I know noble accents And lucid, inescapable rhythms; But I know, too, That the blackbird is involved In what I know.

The imagination is man's power over nature.

I am one of you and being one of you is being and knowing what I am and know. Yet I am the necessary Angel of earth, since, in my sight, you see the earth again.

For the listener, who listens in the snow, / And, nothing himself, beholds / Nothing that is not there and the nothing that is.