’The one thing I believe in unreservedly is the power of imagination. Experience, that is external reality is often dark and threatening, but there is an inner realm of vision which can transcend it. It represents life before the fall when existence and essence were united. This was a state which never existed historically. It belongs to and comes from the imagination...
But to live permanently in this world would be not only Escape but escapism. It must be contrasted with its opposite experience. ‘’