Do you know why I came to you, Amy? Why I came to be your friend? Because you called to me. Out of your loneliness you called me a...nd brought me into being. And I came, so that your childhood could be bright and full of friendliness. Now you must send me away.... You'll remember me for a while, mourn a little, but then you'll forget. And that is as it should be.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Imagination of my kind is most caught, most fired, most worked upon by the unfamiliar: I have thriven ... on the changes and chanc...es, the dislocations and ... contrasts which have made up so much of my life.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
To reduce the imagination to a state of slavery--even though it would mean the elimination of what is commonly called happiness--i...s to betray all sense of absolute justice within oneself. Imagination alone offers me some intimation of what can be.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Fortunately, somewhere between chance and mystery lies imagination, the only thing that protects our freedom, despite the fact tha...t people keep trying to reduce it or kill it off altogether.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The mind can make Substance, and people planets of its own... With beings brighter than have been, and give A breath to forms which can outlive all flesh.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
And she tried to fancy what the flame of a candle looks like after the candle is blown out, for she could not remember ever having... seen such a thing.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
If you set to work to believe everything, you will tire out the believing-muscles of your mind, and then you'll be so weak you won...'t be able to believe the simplest true things.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Every artist knows that there is no such thing as "freedom" in art. The first thing an artist does when he begins a new work is to... lay down the barriers and limitations; he decides upon a certain composition, a certain key, a certain relation of creatures or objects to each other. He is never free, and the more splendid his imagination, the more intense his feeling, the farther he goes from general truth and general emotion.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »