Real things in the darkness seem no realer than dreams.

Childhood lasts all through life. It returns to animate broad sections of adult life.... Poets will help us to find this living childhood within us, this permanent, durable immobile world.

The Golden Compass by Philip Pullman

Executives are constrained not by resources but by their imagination.

Anne With an E

Children's lies are signs of great talent.

The English language is nobody's special property. It is the property of the imagination: it is the property of the language itself.

The light dove, cleaving the air in her free flight, and feeling its resistance, might imagine that its flight would be still easier in empty space.

...happiness is not an ideal of reason but of imagination, resting solely on empirical grounds.

A word is a bud attempting to become a twig. How can one not dream while writing? It is the pen which dreams. The blank page gives the right to dream.

Sarojini Naidu writes instant poetry where images and metaphors come rolling ready on the hot plates of imagination. Her poetry is intensely emotionally, at times passionate to the point of eroticism and always has a spring.

Without effort and change, human life cannot remain good. It is not a finished Utopia that we ought to desire, but a world where imagination and hope are alive and active.