Here undoubtedly lies the chief poetic energy: - in the force of imagination that pierces or exalts the solid fact, instead of floating among cloud-pictures.
The imagination is one of the forces of nature.
Great writers arrive among us like new diseases threatening, powerful, impatient for patients to pick up their virus, irresistible.
Creativity is the life force that Dylan Thomas called 'the force that through the green fuse drives the flower.
The best poetry will be found to have a power of forming, sustaining, and delighting us, as nothing else can.
Then blame not those who, by the mightiest lever Known to the moral world, Imagination.
It is the imagination that gives shape to the universe.
There is the strange power we have of changing facts by the force of the imagination.