Imagination is itself divine.
                        William Wordsworth

Imagination which in truth
Is but another name for absolute power
And clearest insight, amplitude of mind, 
And Reason in her most exalted mood.
                  William Wordsworth, The Prelude, book 14.

     Goya saw ... in The Sleep of Reason, what horrors can ensue when Reason is asleep and the imagination reigns untrammeled.
                      John Passmore: Serious Art (1990)

     The surface of the earth is soft and impressible by the feet of men; and so with the paths the mind travels. How worn and dusty, then must be the highways of the world, how deep the ruts of tradition and conformity.
                       Thoreau

     Unless there is a new mind, there cannot be a new line.
                      William Carlos Williams

For more on the imagination: 
     See Stephen Denning, The Painter, A Novel of Pursuit, (iUniverse, October 2000) 
     Stephen Denning, Sonnets 2000, (iUniverse, October 2000) 

     See Stephen Denning, The Painter, A Novel of Pursuit, (iUniverse, October 2000) 

     Stephen Denning, Sonnets 2000, (iUniverse, October 2000)