Imagination is the outreaching of mind . . . . the bombardment of the conscious mind with ideas, impulses, images and every sort of psychic phenomena welling up from the preconscious. It is the capacity to 'dream dreams and see visions . . . .

When you write a poem, you discover that the very necessity of fitting your meaning into such and such a form requires you to search in your imagination for ne…

You can live without a father who accepts you, but you cannot live without a world that makes some sense to you.

Creativity arises out of the tension between spontaneity and limitations, the latter (like the river banks) forcing the spontaneity into the various forms whic…

We probed into the nature of space and time, and of the universal, both with regard to external nature and with regard to mind. But then, we went on to conside…

The armored cars of dreams contrived to let us do so many a dangerous thing.

The unconscious is the larger circle which includes within itself the smaller circle of the conscious; everything conscious has its preliminary step in the unc…