There are no rules of architecture for a castle in the clouds.

The function of the imagination is not to make strange things settled, so much as to make settled things strange.

The function of the imagination is not to make strange things settled, so much as to make settled things strange.

Imagination does not breed insanity. Exactly what does breed insanity is reason. Poets do not go mad; but chess-players do. Mathematicians go mad, and cashiers; but creative artists very seldom. I am not, as will be seen, in any sense attacking logic: I only say that this danger does lie in logic, not in imagination.

I left the fairy tales lying on the floor of the nursery, and I have not found any books so sensible since.

White founts falling in the courts of the sun, / And the Soldan of Byzantium is smiling as they run.