“Let us leave it then unwritten for the present, and think how much more precious is an infinite series of undefined expectations than any paltry performance or transient fruition.” A memorable defence of possibility and anticipation over forced production · Letter to Edward Everett Hale, December 7, 1869 Imagination Potential Writing
“Keep it whole, and you can feast your eyes on its gorgeous color, and your mind with the thought that it carries the possibility of Phoenix.” Celebrating potential before it is diminished by actual performance · Letter to Edward Everett Hale, December 7, 1869 Creation Imagination Potential
“Like an Easter egg, that unhatched production is stained by the reader-to-be’s imagination with every brilliant hue of promise.” Comparing unrealised writing with the limitless promise of an unopened egg · Letter to Edward Everett Hale, December 7, 1869 Imagination Potential Writing
