Quotes About Vision

There are no barriers to poetry or prophecy; by their nature they are barrier-breakers, bursts of perceptions, lines into infinity. If the poet lies about his vision he lies about himself and in himself; this produces a true barrier.

Courage is the capacity to comfront what can be imagined....

Does not every eternal masterpiece derive from the experience of disgrace, humiliation, wounded pride? The thoughtless mob may wildly applaud a work of art - to me it reveals the devastated mind of its creator. In all the great symphonies of tones, colours and ideas I see a gleam of the marvellous colour trumpet red, a faint reflection of the vision that for a short while raised the Master above the bewildering maze of his tormenting guilt.

Courage is the capacity to confront what can be imagined.

Courage is the capacity to confirm what can be imagined.

Mr. Herman, you're wearing glasses. Were you wearing them on the morning of March first?" "Yes, I was." "And what is your vision when you're wearing your glasses?" "Twenty-twenty." "Have you ever been diagnosed with a mental disorder?" "No. Never." "Thank you. That's all I have, Your Honor.

active imagination

We're finally becoming aware of a process that has been unconscious since human experience began. From the start, humans have perceived a Birth Vision, and then after birth have gone unconscious, aware of only the vaguest of intuitions. At first in the early day of human history, the distance between what we intended and what we actually accomplished was very great, and then, over time, the distance has closed. Now we're the verge of remembering everything.

Cuando amas, imaginas el futuro de acuerdo con tus sueños.

The best way to predict the future is to create it. You do that by study.

The best way to predict the future is to invent it. – Alan Kay

Con una visión perfecta uno se ve inextricablemente atrapado en el mundo cotidiano, prisionero de la realidad (...) Para la persona con ojos de halcón, la vida no posee ninguno de aquellos aspectos suaves que para mí se confunde con la fantasía

We must get home! How could we stray like this? So far from home, we know not where it is, Only in some fair, apple-blossomy place Of children's faces--and the mother's face We dimly dream it, till the vision clears

In the convex driving-mirror she could see, dwindling rapidly, the patch of road where they had stood; and she wondered why it had never occurred to her before that you cannot successfully navigate the future unless you keep always framed beside it a small clear image of the past.

Indulge your imagination in every possible flight.

When a heroine is satisfied that she has exercised judgement with clear vision, moral principle,and common sense, she need not acquiesce to opposing viewpoints.

Para su corazón era un asunto delicioso, para su imaginación una visión ridícula, mas para su razón, para su juicio, un verdadero embrollo.

How much more must an imaginist, like herself be on fire with speculation and foresight!

So it seems we can shift our perspective to see the light and also to work to create more of it.

The only duty of the dreamer is to tell the truth about the dream.

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I closed my eyes to watch tiny dancers like jeweled birds cross the dark screen of my eyelids.

He was so damn perverse, he preferred to dream it than to make it come true.

What happened to a dream without a dreamer?