The imagination...that reconciling and mediatory power, which incorporating the reason in images of the sense and organizing (as it were) the flux of the senses by the permanence and self-circling energies of the reason, gives birth to a system of symbols, harmonious in themselves, and consubstantial with the truths of which they are the conductors.
ColeridgeArtImaginationPhilosophyPerceptionReasonSymbolismSymbols
The description is dense and may be difficult to apply practically.
The last speech [Iago's soliloquy], the motive-hunting of a motiveless malignity - how awful!
The knight's bones are dust, And his good sword rust; His soul is with the saints, I trust.
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For me, reason is the natural organ of truth; but imagination is the organ of meaning. Imagination, producing new metaphors or revivifying old, is not the caus…
The blessed damozel lean'd out From the gold bar of Heaven; Her eyes were deeper than the depth Of waters still'd at even; She had three lilies in her hand, An…
Fantasy, abandoned by reason, produces impossible monsters; united with it, she is the mother of the arts and the origin of marvels.