“I am certain of nothing but the holiness of the heart's affections and the truth of imagination — what the imagination seizes as beauty must be truth — whether it existed before or not.”— John Keats, en.wikiquote.org
“My spirit is too weak — mortality Weighs heavily on me like unwilling sleep, And each imagin'd pinnacle and steep Of godlike hardship tells me I must die Like a sick Eagle looking at the sky.”— John Keats, amazon.com
“A man, to be greatly good, must imagine intensely and comprehensively; he must put himself in the place of another and many others; the pains and pleasures of his species must become his own. The great instrument of moral good is the imagination.”— Percy Bysshe Shelley, amazon.com
“Imagination is everything. It is the preview of life’s coming attractions.”— Albert Einstein, goodreads.com
“Her imagination was by habit ridiculously active; when the door was not open it jumped out the window.”— Henry James, amazon.com
“Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were. But without it we go nowhere.”— Carl Sagan, amazon.com
“Even when I am alone, I have real good company - dreams and imaginations and pretendings.”— L. M. Montgomery, amazon.com
“You can have a very intense relationship with fictional characters because they are in your own head.”— J. K. Rowling, amazon.com
“With your fairy tales and fabrications and potent manipulations, you have only succeeded in making me an alien to your every affection.”— Lori Jenessa Nelson, amazon.com
“This highway leads to the shadowy tip of reality: you're on a through route to the land of the different, the bizarre, the unexplainable...Go as far as you like on this road. Its limits are only those of mind itself. Ladies and Gentlemen, you're entering the wondrous dimension of imagination. Next s…”— Rod Serling, books.google.com
“Imagination is everything. It is the preview of life’s coming attractions.”— Albert Einstein, en.wikiquote.org
“Lonely children often have imaginary playmates but I was never lonely; rather, I was solitary, and wanted no company at all other than books and movies, and my own imagination.”— Gore Vidal, amazon.com
“Write what you know will always be excellent advice for those who ought not to write at all. Write what you think, what you imagine, what you suspect.”— Gore Vidal, amazon.com
“Every new painting is like throwing myself into the water without knowing how to swim.”— Edouard Manet, edouard-manet.net