"Literary imagination is an aesthetic object offered by a writer to a lover of books." ― Gaston Bachelard Topic(s): Imagination More From Gaston Bachelard "If I were asked to name the chief benefit of the house, I should say: the house shelters day-dreaming, the house protects the dreamer, the house allows one to dream in peace." "The great function of poetry is to give back to us the situations of our dreams." "A special kind of beauty exists which is born in language, of language, and for language." More In Imagination "Hope is not the conviction that something will turn out well but the certainty that something makes sense, regardless of how it turns out."― Vaclav Havel "The true sign of intelligence is not knowledge but imagination."― Albert Einstein "Everything, I think, about acting is based on imagination."― Christina Ricci