“No matter how much experience we may gather in life, we can never in life get the dimension of experience that the imagination gives us. Only the arts and sciences can do that, and of these, only literature gives us the whole sweep and range of human imagination as it sees itself.”

"Quotes", The Educated Imagination (1963), Talk 4: The Keys To Dreamland

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Canadian literary critic and literary theorist 1912–1991

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