The highest exercise of imagination is not to devise what has no existence, but rather to perceive what really exists, though unseen by the outward eye-not creation, but insight.


Longfellow's Days (ed. 1888)

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Quotes

The highest exercise of imagination is not to devise what has no existence, but rather to perceive what really exists, though unseen by the outward...

The highest exercise of imagination is not to devise what has no existence, but rather to perceive what really exists, though unseen by the outward...

The highest exercise of imagination is not to devise what has no existence, but rather to perceive what really exists, though unseen by the outward...

The highest exercise of imagination is not to devise what has no existence, but rather to perceive what really exists, though unseen by the outward...