Gerard Manley Hopkins, the Anglican student turned Jesuit poet, thought of imagining as a contemplative exercise, a deliberate way of taking the world in and making sense of it with a spiritually inspired creativity; he called this "inscape." For Hopkins, it was possible to exercise the will in order to see the world and even create new interpretations of it by the guidance of the Holy Spirit.
— Jon M. Sweeney, The Lure of Saints