Quotes About Imagination

Wenn du der Träumer bist, bin ich dein Traum. Doch wenn du wachen willst, bin ich dein Wille

Para el verdadero creador no hay pobreza ni lugares comunes. Y aunque se encontrase encerrado en una prisión cuyos muros impidieran que el fragor del mundo alcanzase su entendimiento, ¿no podría recurrir siempre a su infancia, ese reino delicioso, esa cámara del tesoro que alberga tantos recuerdos?

The wish to improve another person's situation presupposes a level of insight into his conditions that even a poet does not possess with regard to a character he himself invented.

If your everyday life seems poor, don't blame it; blame yourself; admit to yourself that you are not enough of a poet to call forth its riches; because for the creator there is no poverty and no poor, indifferent place. And even if you found yourself in some prison, whose walls let in none of the world's sound - wouldn't you still have your childhood, that jewel beyond all price, that treasure house of memories? Turn your attention to it.

Wenn Ihr Alltag Ihnen arm scheint, klagen Sie ihn nicht an; klagen Sie sich an, sagen Sie sich, daß Sie nicht Dichter genug sind, seine Reichtümer zu rufen; denn für den Schaffenden gibt es keine Armut und keinen armen, gleichgültigen Ort.

Man's hope can paint a purple picture, can transform a soaring vulture into a noble eagle or moaning dove.

New York! he said. That's not a place, it's a dream.

I pour the red liquid over the white mound, watching it glisten and the vapor rising as Louis bends that military instrument into a beam of lyrical sound.

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Until some gang succeeds in putting the world in a strait jacket, its definition is possibility.

while fiction is but a form of symbolic action, a mere game of "as if," therein lies its true function and its potential for effecting change.

Man's hope can paint a purple picture, can transform a soaring vulture into a noble eagle or a moaning dove.

Ellison stated that "by a trick of fate (and our racial problems notwithstanding), the human imagination is integrative—and the same is true of the centrifugal force that inspirits the democratic process.

You become what you think about all day long.

There is creative reading as well as creative writing.

In a library we are surrounded by many hundreds of dear friends imprisoned by an enchanter in paper and leathern boxes.

Don't be pushed by your problems. Be led by your dreams.

It is a happy talent to know how to play.

Books are for nothing but to inspire

When I read a good book, I wish my life were three thousand years long.

Men love to wonder, and that is the seed of science.

A person will worship something, have no doubt about that. We may think our tribute is paid in secret in the dark recesses of our hearts, but it will come out. That which dominates our imaginations and our thoughts will determine our lives, and our character. Therefore, it behooves us to be careful what we worship, for what we are worshipping, we are becoming.

Science does not know its debt to imagination.

Build therefore your own world.