Imagination is not something apart and hermetic, not a way of leaving reality behind; it is a way of engaging reality.

Imagination is not something apart and hermetic, not a way of leaving reality behind; it is a way of engaging reality.

想象不是孤立的、封闭的东西，不是把现实抛诸脑后的一种方式;这是一种融入现实的方式。

-- Irving Howe 欧文·豪