Fancy, Power of
Imaginative speech vividly presents truth and beautifies dry facts for listeners.
Most marvellous and enviable is that fecundity of fancy which can adorn whatever it touches; which can invest naked fact and dry reasoning with unlooked-for beauty; make flowerets bloom even on the brow of the precipice; and, when nothing better can be had, can turn the very substance of the rock itself into moss and lichens. This faculty is incomparably the most important for the vivid and attractive exhibition of truth to the minds of men.
— A. Fuller