It is a fresh chest of treasures. But the treasures are only visible and usable by those who have seen and used the content of the chests which belong to earlier periods. To believe in the future and sense the relation of Today to it is as good a happiness insurance policy as any of us can take out. It requires imagination however to believe in the need of any kind of insurance. Many a man has lost his home and his business because he could not see his possessions burning down.
Imagination is the only key to the future.
Without it none exists - with it all things are possible. We are rarely trained to understand the relationship of imagination to daily life and toil. We learn about it in a book and regard it either as another bewildering and intangible subject having nothing to do with us, or as something which belongs exclusively to poets. It is that which creates. We are told, and we usually believe that it creates something out of nothing.