Our imaginations are masters of us.

Where can they have contracted the deadly heresy that imagination, feeling, and affection, are good things, deserving encouragement?

" Imagination is not the exclusive appanage of artists, but belongs in varying degrees to all men.

The aera of foresight is the aera of imagination, and imagination is the grand instrument of virtue.

If, using the word in its widest sense, we may say that the imagination is the creative function, we may call the will the centralizing principle.

The savage has no imagination, and imagination is the organ of romantic love; without it there can be no sympathy, and without sympathy there can be no love.

"Here the man is John, and John is the man; so the words are the imagination and the fancy, and the imagination and the fancy are the words.

Vigorous but controlled imagination, formative power, insight into the significance of thingsthese are qualities which a poet must eminently possess; but these are qualities which may also be eminently possessed by men who cannot claim the title of poet.

Imagination is the faculty of perceiving the higher and final relations of life, the relation of one's work to the progress of the world, and of one's conduct: to spiritual history.

thy mind is composed of vanities, and thy imagination is thy bitterest foe!" "Women and vanities!" echoed the amazed burgher.

This is the highest miracle of genius,that things which are not should be as though they were,that the imaginations of one mind should become the personal recollections of another.

For him, Imagination is the one great reality, in it alone he sees a human faculty that touches both nature and spirit, thus uniting them in one.

Indeed, so open were Sir Julian's glances that the maid herself became confused and said, with some embarrassment, "My imagination is ofttime profligate, and I indulgein fancyin exchange of word and thought with those great and exalted personages whose noble compeers I have the good fortune to consort with daily.

Imagination was an active power in the Drummer's sphere.

Imagination is the child of inherited and living impressions.

No imagination at all is brutality; a base imagination is lust and cowardice; but a noble imagination is God walking the earth again.

Henry's imagination was sometimes his worst enemy.

Shortly, he is translated out of a man into folly; his imagination is the glass of lust, and himself the traitor to his own discretion.

His imagination was a very slaughter-house, in which all who crossed him were slain.

The first kind is derived from real existences that have been objects of our senses; language is the cause of the second, or any other sign that has the same power with language; and a man's imagination is to himself the cause of the third.

His imagination is a fool, and it goeth in a pied coat of red and white.

The truth is, our English imagination, more profound than the Roman, is also more gloomy, less gay, less riante.

Remember I am a poet; imagination is my world; the unreal my home; the Muses my sisters.

All the grand imaginations of men, all the glorified shapes, the Olympian gods, cherubic and seraphic forms, are but symbols and adumbrations of what it contains.

His imagination is livelier.