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Quotes About Imagination

The real poem is the soul within them and that beautiful bit is the soul of an unwritten poem. It's not everyday one sees a soul, even of a poem.
~ Lucy Maud Montgomery
You don't know love when you see it. You've tricked something out with your imagination that you think love, and you expect the real thing to look like that. There, that's the first sensible thing I've ever said in my life. I wonder how I managed it?
~ Lucy Maud Montgomery
E ela era mais rica naqueles sonhos do que na realidade, pois o que os olhos veem é passageiro, mas o que não veem é eterno.
~ Lucy Maud Montgomery
Anne Shirley, you're only pretending to be grown up. I believe when you're alone you're as much a little girl as you ever were.
~ Lucy Maud Montgomery
Then she lifted her face and smiled gallantly at the empty sky. 'There will be other rainbows.' she said. Emily was a chaser of rainbows.
~ Lucy Maud Montgomery
I'd be in such a hurry to get into bed, nice and quiet, and imagine things
~ Lucy Maud Montgomery
Ah, bak Diana ne güzel bir gökkuÅŸa??! Sence biz gittikten sonra Orman Perisi gelip onu boynuna eÅŸarp diye takar m??
~ Lucy Maud Montgomery
I love books. I hope to grow up to have lots of them.
~ Lucy Maud Montgomery
Long ago, before I had ever seen a diamond, I read about them and I tried to imagine what they would be like ... When I saw a real diamond in a lady's ring one day I was so disappointed I cried. Of course, it was very lovely but it wasn't my idea of a diamond.
~ Lucy Maud Montgomery
There is such a place as fairyland-but only a few, who remain children at heart, can ever find that fair, lost path again; and blessed are they above mortals. They can bring us tidings from that dear country where we once sojourned and must be evermore exiles. The world calls them its singers and poets and artists and storytellers; but they are just people who have never forgotten the way to fairyland.
~ Lucy Maud Montgomery
I had, in my vivid imagination, a passport to fairyland.
~ Lucy Maud Montgomery
I love weaving a story and spinning it around with my pen.
~ Lucy Maud Montgomery
Once upon a time we all walked on the golden road. It became an honest motorway, through the Land of Lost Delight; shadow and sunshine were blessedly mingled, and each turn and dip discovered a sparkling appeal and a new loveliness to eager hearts and unspoiled eyes.
~ Lucy Maud Montgomery
Katie Maurice was a little girl like myself, and I loved her dearly. I would stand before that door and prattle to Katie for hours, giving and receiving confidences. In especial, I liked to do this at twilight, when the fire had been lit and the rooms and its reflections were a glamour of light and shadow.
~ Lucy Maud Montgomery
It just makes me feel glad to be alive- it is such an interesting world. It wouldn't be half so interesting if we know all about everything would it? There'd be no scope for imagination then would there?
~ Lucy Maud Montgomery
But the worst of imagining things is that the time comes when you have to stop and that hurts
~ Lucy Maud Montgomery
If you don't believe things, you'll never have any fun. The more things you can believe the more interesting life is, as you say yourself. Too much incredulity makes it a poor thing.
~ Lucy Maud Montgomery
I'm so sorry for people who live in lands where there are no Mayflowers," said Anne. "Diana says perhaps they have something better, but there couldn't be anything better than Mayflowers, could there, Marilla? And Diana says if they don't know what they are like they don't miss them. But I think that is the saddest thing of all. I think it would be tragic, Marilla, not to know what Mayflowers are like and not to miss them
~ Lucy Maud Montgomery
The world looks like something that God imagined for his own pleasure.
~ Lucy Maud Montgomery
It's better to imagine than to know.
~ Lucy Maud Montgomery
Books are not written about proper children. They would so so dull and boring nobody would read them.
~ Lucy Maud Montgomery
Have you ever read stories that weren't true? demanded Paula.
~ Lucy Maud Montgomery
Keep your dream, little Marigold for as long as you can. A dream is an immortal thing. Time cannot kill it or age wither it. You may tire of reality but never of dreams. The dreamer's joy is worth the dreamer's pain.
~ Lucy Maud Montgomery
The old magic was gone forever- gone with Sylvia and the Hidden Land and all the dear, sweet fading dreams of childhood.
~ Lucy Maud Montgomery