Imagination, the spur of delights Imagination, the spur of delights Quotes No Responses » Nov 272013 The imagination is the spur of delights … all depends upon it, it is the mainspring of everything; now, is it not by means of th e imagination one knows joy? Is it not of the imagination that the sharpest pleasures arise? – Marquis De Sade http://quotes.dictionary.com/author/marquis+de+sade