Quotation by

Algernon H. Blackwood

His imagination conceived and bore - worlds but nothing in these worlds became alive until he discovered its true and living name. The name was the breath of life and, sooner or later, he invariably found it.

Imagination

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The quote means that creating ideas or worlds through imagination is not enough to make them meaningful or real until the creator identifies their essential nature by naming them. This act of naming gives these imagined worlds vitality and significance, which the creator always manages to achieve eventually.

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