imagination
“Go and catch a falling star.”
“I never saw a Moor — I never saw the Sea; yet know I how the Heather looks, and what a Wave must be.”
“To create a little flower is the labour of ages.”
“When thou seest an Eagle, thou seest a portion of Genius. lift up thy head!”
“Science-fiction balances you on the cliff. Fantasy shoves you off.”
“Quickly, bring me a beaker of wine, so that I may wet my mind and say something clever.”
“If one is lucky, a solitary fantasy can totally transform one million realities.”
“It is not difficult to nourish admirable thoughts when the stars are present.”
“Imagination and fiction make up more than three quarters of our real life.”
“Anything one man can imagine, other men can make real.”
“The world is but a canvas to our imagination.”
“Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were. But without it we go nowhere.”
“A rock pile ceases to be a rock pile the moment a single man contemplates it, bearing within him the image of a cathedral.”
“The world of reality has its limits; the world of imagination is boundless.”
“It is our imagination that is responsible for love, not the other person.”
“The mind's eye sees farther than the fleshly eye.”
“Necessity is the mother of invention.”
“Keep some room in your heart for the unimaginable.”
“Every beloved object is the center of a paradise.”
“I never ask a man what his business is, for it never interests me. What I ask him about are his thoughts and dreams.”