“It is not a thing that you can imagine. It only is. After that, there can be no imagining.”

“A man may imagine things that are false, but he can only understand things that are true.”

“Yes, I think I am a realist. Because I make what I see. It's only the problem of seeing it. If you can imagine a thing, conjure it up in space - then you can make it, and tout de suite you're a realist. The universe is real but you can't see it. You have to imagine it. Once you imagine it, you can be realistic about reproducing it.”

“My dear, beautiful and imaginative things can be destroyed. Beauty and imagination cannot.”

“Can you imagine the world if we only saw souls, and not bodies?”

“The universe is not only queerer than we imagine, but queerer than we can imagine.”

“Only in relation to our imagination can things be called beautiful or ugly, well-ordered or confused”

“Said the river: imagine everything you can imagine, then keep on going.”

“The only thing that can save the world is the reclaiming of the awareness of the world. That's what poetry does. By poetry I mean the imagining of what has been lost and what can be found—the imagining of who we are and the slow realization of it.”

“On a night without moon or stars you can't see a thing, but you can imagine anything.”