The Natural Power, Depth, and Subtlety of the Mind
"Experience is never limited, and it is never complete; it is an immense sensibility,
a kind of huge spider-web of the finest silken threads suspended in the chamber of
consciousness, and catching every airborne particle in its tissue. It is the very
atmosphere of the mind; and when the mind is imaginative ... it takes to itself the
faintest hints of life, it converts the very pulses of the air into revelations."
From: Henry James, Partial Portraits, 'The Art of Fiction,' University of Michigan
Press, Ann Arbor, MI 1970 ed., p. 388, orig. pub. 1888.
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