It always amuses me that the biggest praise for my work comes for the imagination, while the truth is that there’s not a single line in all my work that does not have a basis in reality. The problem is that Caribbean reality resembles the wildest imagination.
Imagination, the real and eternal World of which this Vegetable Universe is but a faint shadow, and in which we shall live in our Eternal or Imaginative Bodies when these Vegetable Mortal Bodies are no more.
Imagination means nothing without doing.
Imagination is the beginning of creation. You imagine what you desire; you will what you imagine; and at last you create what you will.
If you don’t imagine, nothing ever happens at all.
If you do not see great riches in your imagination, you will never see them in your bank balance.
I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library.
I dwell in Possibility –
I am moved by fancies that are curled around these images, and cling: The notion of some infinitely gentle Infinitely suffering thing.
He ate and drank the precious Words – His Spirit grew robust – He knew no more that he was poor, Nor that his frame was Dust –
Happiness is not an ideal of reason but of imagination.[Glückseligkeit nicht ein Ideal der Vernunft, sondern der Einbildungskraft ist.]
First comes the thought; then, organization of that thought into ideas and plans; then transformation of those plans into reality. The beginning, as you will observe, is in your imagination.
