That's the thing about Shakespeare: his imagination is so huge that he's almost daring you to imagine with him.
But he might just as well have been talking about what his imagination accreted as he stumbled adroitly, always in doubt about cash and living quarters, through Trieste, Zurich and Paris.
"Why not right here?" In the course of a friendly correspondence, Yanik Le Guillou gave Curtis a warning about indulging his imagination.
He says he writes intuitively, without characters or setting, just an idea but no thought about where his imagination will take him.
"What we're going through now in society and in the economy is not new...The confusion and anger people are feeling today echo…the 1890s". The people Nick Salvatore, historian and biographer, writes about captivate his imagination but so do the larger social issues in which they're engaged; he captures history through their eyes.
The former, in its own witness to one man's obsessive interference with nature, was a direct influence on Melville, who acquired a copy on a visit to London in 1849, even as the whalish shades were beginning to swirl about in his imagination.
Philip Pullman, author and president of the Blake Society, said: "William Blake was a complete original: his power, his tenderness, his wit, his graphic line are like no one else's, and it's good to remind people ever so often about his colossal imagination and his moral vision, which are just as potent now after two hundred years as they were when he brought them into the world".
Something, at least, in Ofili's art which is about his own imagination, and not about pleasuring the passing trade.
Toward the middle of "Pop," as Warhol struggles with his feelings about Abstract Expressionism, his imagination creates a slapstick barroom brawl involving the New York School's biggest names.
