Quotes About Imagination

Imagination is a very high sort of seeing.

Imagination is a very high sort of seeing, which does not come by study, but by the intellect being where and what it sees, by sharing the path, or circuits of things through forms, and so making them translucid to others.

Every word was once a poem.

One must be an inventor to read well. There is then creative reading as well as creative writing.

The poet knows that he speaks adequately, then, only when he speaks somewhat wildly.

In art the hand can never execute anything higher than the heart can inspire.

My book should smell of pines and resound with the hum of insects.

Always the seer is a sayer. Somehow his dream is told; somehow he publishes it with solemn joy: sometimes with pencil on canvas, sometimes with chisel on stone, sometimes in towers and aisles of granite, his soul's worship is builded; sometimes in anthems of indefinite music, but clearest and most permanent, in words.

Bare lists of words are found suggestive to an imaginative and excited mind.

In the work of a writer of genius, we rediscover our own neglected thoughts.

Books are the best of things, well used; abused, among the worst...They are for nothing but to inspire.

He will perceive that there are far more excellent qualities in the student than preciseness and infallibility; that a guess is often more fruitful than an indisputable affirmation, and that a dream may let us deeper into the secret of nature than a hundred concerted experiments

Things are pretty, graceful, rich, elegant, handsome, but, until they speak to the imagination, not yet beautiful.

The most wonderful inspirations die with their subject, if he has no hand to paint them to the senses.

Some of your hurts you have cured, and the sharpest you've even survived. But what torments of grief you've endured from evils which never arrived - Ralph Waldo Emerson

There are no days in life that are so memorable as those that vibrate to some stroke of the imagination.

Judge of your natural character by what you do in your dreams.

The maker of a sentence launches out into the infinite and builds a road into Chaos and old Night, and is followed by those who hear him with something of wild, creative delight.

The poet is the sayer, the namer, and represents beauty.

Dream delivers us to dream and there is no end to illusion.

For poetry was all written before time was, and whenever we are so finely organized that we can penetrate into that region where the air is music, we hear those primal warblings and attempt to write them down, but we lose ever and anon a word or a verse and substitute something of our own, and thus miswrite the poem. The men of more delicate ear write down these cadences more faithfully, and these transcripts, though imperfect, become the songs of the nations.

The World exists for you ; Build therefore your own world

There is then creative reading as well as creative writing. When the mind is braced by labor and invention, the page of whatever book we read becomes luminous with manifold allusion. -Ralph Waldo Emerson, writer and philosopher (1803-1882)

Man hopes, genius creates