“The secondary imagination dissolves, diffuses, dissipates, in order to re-create; or where this process is rendered impossible, yet still at all events it struggles to idealize and to unify.” Describing the secondary imagination as a vital, unifying power · Biographia Literaria, Chapter XIII Creation Imagination Unity
“The primary imagination I hold to be the living Power and prime Agent of all human Perception, and as a repetition in the finite mind of the eternal act of creation in the infinite I AM.” Defining imagination as the fundamental creative act of perception itself · Biographia Literaria, Chapter XIII Creation Imagination Perception
