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.
Source: Biographia Literaria, ch. 13.
-- Samuel Taylor Coleridge, (Oct 21 1772-1834), English poet, critic, essayist; He was a noted poet of the Romantic movement; wrote Rime of the Ancient Mariner, 1798.