I am certain of nothing but the Holiness of the Heart's affections and the Truth of the Imagination

I am certain of nothing but the holiness of the Heart's affections and the truth of the Imagination.

What the imagination seizes as beauty must be truth.

I am certain of nothing but the holiness of the heart's affections, and the truth of imagination.

The imagination of a boy is healthy, and the mature imagination of a man is healthy; but there is a space of life between, in which the soul is in a ferment, the character undecided, the way of life uncertain, the ambition thick-sighted: thence proceeds mawkishness.

My imagination is a monastery, and I am its monk