Imagination is the true fire

Imagination is the true fire, stolen from heaven, to animate this cold creature of clay, producing all those fine sympathies that lead to rapture, rendering men social by expanding their hearts, instead of leaving them leisure to calculate how many comforts society affords.

Mary Wollstonecraft
“Letter to Gilbert Imlay (Sep. 1794)” in The Collected Letters of Mary Wollstonecraft

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