And make my seated heart knock at my ribs, Against the use of nature. Present fears Are less than horrible imaginings. In time we hate that which we often fear. (Macbeth)
Imagine - Imagination Quotes
It is usually the imagination that is wounded first, rather than the heart; it being much more sensitive.
The ego locks the muse.
The best in this kind are but shadows; and the worst Are no worse, if imagination amend them. (A Midsummer Night’s Dream)
Sometimes I feel like a figment of my own imagination.
First have being in your mind. Make real in your mind then bring that being into reality. The genius is he who sees what is not yet and causes it to come to be.
Prove true, imagination, O, prove true. (Twelfth Night)
And what can be more obscene than our own imaginations?
Little men with little minds and little imaginations go through life in little ruts, smugly resisting all changes which would jar their little worlds.
The unicorn is said to be a beast with the configuration of a horse and a long spiraled horn in the center of the forehead. Only a virgin, we are told, is able to approach a unicorn. For this and other reasons, no reliable reports exist to verify the reality of this animal.