G. L. Lowes on what the imagination is

    All of us would be lost without our imagination. Do you know what it is? Hear G. L. Lowes:

    Above all things else, we must recall, the imagination is an assimilating energy. It pierces through dissimilarity to some underlying oneness in which qualities the most remote cohere.

    (Quoted from page 47 of The Way to Write, by John Fairfax and John Moat. St. Martin’s Press, 1981.)
   G. L. Lowes was a professor at Harvard University, perhaps best known for the book he published in 1927, The Road to Xanadu, a work on Samuel Taylor Coleridge.