Thou hast the keys of Paradise, O just, subtle, and mighty opium!

Thou hast the keys of Paradise, O just, subtle, and mighty opium!

The quality of the imagination is to flow and not to freeze

The quality of the imagination is to flow and not to freeze

I always imagined I could be what I wanted to be.

I always imagined I could be what I wanted to be.

Imagination is the one weapon in the war against reality.

Imagination is the one weapon in the war against reality.

Falling in love consists merely in uncorking the imagination and bottling the common-sense.

Falling in love consists merely in uncorking the imagination and bottling the common-sense.

Imagination was given to man to compensate him for what he is not; a sense of humor to console him read more

Imagination was given to man to compensate him for what he is not; a sense of humor to console him for what he is.

It's a poor sort of memory that only works backwards.

It's a poor sort of memory that only works backwards.

People who lean on logic and philosophy and rational exposition end by starving the best part of the mind.

People who lean on logic and philosophy and rational exposition end by starving the best part of the mind.

The function of the imagination is not to make strange things settled, so much as to make settled things strange.

The function of the imagination is not to make strange things settled, so much as to make settled things strange.