Quotes About Vision

It is not important what you see, but it is important the way you see it.

When I sleep tonight I dream of what I will imagine tomorrow.

Your driving desires will determine what you become.

I set free the phantoms of my imagination.

If the imagination is shackled, and nothing is described but what we see, seldom will anything truly great be produced either in Painting or Poetry

If you choose your subject selectively - intuitively - the camera can write poetry.

If your vision of the world is of a certain kind you will put poetry in everything, necessarily.

Poetry is not a code to be broken but a way of seeing with the eyes shut.

The primary pigment of poetry is the IMAGE.

Poetry is not only a set of words which are chosen to relate to each other; it is something which goes much further than that to provide a glimpse of our vision of the world.

for what is the gift of the poet and the artist except to see the sights which others cannot see and to hear the sounds that others cannot hear?

Poetry is what makes the invisible appear.

Poetry is not only dream and vision; it is the skeleton architecture of our lives. It lays the foundations for a future of change, a bridge across our fears of what has never been before.

I still believe in this country, that it can fulfill the destiny Blake and Whitman envisioned. I still believe in American poetry.

A truly poetic canvas is an awakened dream.

With several different kinds of poetry to choose from, a man would decide that he would like best to be an epic poet, and he would set out, in conscious determination, on an epic poem.

Mastery in poetry consists largely in the instinct for not ruining or smothering or tinkering with moments of vision.

I live not in dreams but in contemplation of a reality that is perhaps the future.

America was based on a poetic vision. What will happen when it loses its poetry?

Poetry is an attenuation, a rehandling, an echo of crude experience; it is itself a theoretic vision of things at arm's length.

Poetry is the morning dream of great minds.

Dream by making and make by dreaming.

poetry ... shows with a sudden intense clarity what is already there.

Imagination in poetry, as distinguished from mere fancy is the transfiguring of the real or actual to the ideal.