Imagination is the organ through which the soul within us recognizes a soul without us; the spiritual eye by which the mind perceives and converses with the spiritualities of nature under her material forms; which tends to exalt even the senses into soul by discerning a soul in the objects of sense.


Lectures on Shakespeare (ed. 1848)


Imagination is the organ through which the soul within us recognizes a soul without us; the spiritual eye by which the mind perceives and converses...

Imagination is the organ through which the soul within us recognizes a soul without us; the spiritual eye by which the mind perceives and converses...

Imagination is the organ through which the soul within us recognizes a soul without us; the spiritual eye by which the mind perceives and converses...

Imagination is the organ through which the soul within us recognizes a soul without us; the spiritual eye by which the mind perceives and converses...