Biographia Literaria; or, Biographical Sketches of My Literary Life and Opinions • Paragraph 5
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Fancy, on the other hand, has no other countersign than the mechanical and aggregative tendency of the mind. It has power to juxtapose and arrange ideas, but not to vivify them; it obeys the will, and is distinguished by rapidity, facility, and casualness. Fancy accumulates and superadds, but does not vitalize by fusion: it is associative where the Imagination is creative.