Quotes About Imagination

By God!' he whispered, drawing his breath in sharply, 'it is all pure Rider Haggard and Conan Doyle.

So I awoke, and behold it was a dream.

My own suspicion is that the universe is not only stranger than we suppose, but stranger than we can suppose.

No poem lovely as a tree, she said (though I'd never once thought to compare)

Sometimes, coming home in the early morning like this, I'd imagine things had altered while I was absent: a knife on the bread board that I didn't remember leaving out, a book face down on the table, a cup brimming with tea and dishwater in the sink. The evidence I wanted didn't need to be too elaborate or detailed. I could have constructed an entire afterlife from a half-moon of lemon rind or a small blister of jam on the tablecloth.

Where logic seems apparent: in bullfrogs or Black-Eyed Susans bird migrations patterns on the skin of newt or carp we go too far imagining a god of purposes.

To treat your facts with imagination is one thing, to imagine your facts is another.

To treat your facts with imagination is one thing, but to imagine your facts is another.

Nature we have always with us, an in exhaustible store-house of that which moves the heart, appeals to the mind and fires the imagination -- health to the body, a stimulus to the intellect, and joy to the soul.

Literature does not grow wild in the woods. Every artist does something more than copy Nature; more comes out in his account than goes into the original experience.

Gudda Gudda

The Imagi-Nation is a little country in your head. When you're young, you go there to play. When you get older, you go there to worry.

Seriously--you've got TWENTY thingamabobs AND a snarfblat!

There is no true poet in whom fancy is not close akin to faith.

I'm only interested in fiction that in some way or other voices the very imagination which is conceiving it.

In the province of the mind, what one believes to be true is true or becomes true, within certain limits to be found experientially and experimentally. These limits are further beliefs to be transcended. In the mind there are no limits.

Vrys' First Law: If you deny reality, you must invent a fantasy.

I have nothing to say, I am saying it, and that is poetry.

It would be better to have no school at all than the schools we now have. Encouraged, instead of frightened, children could learn several languages before reaching age of four, at that age engaging in the invention of their own languages. Play'd be play instead of being, as now, release of repressed anger.

Art is sort of an experimental station in which one tries out living

I learn from thinking about the future, what hasn't been done yet. That's kind of my constant obsession.

Books crawl down from the shelves; Read themselves through you; Read themselves at you. - Library of Force

They do not therefore apprehend God as he offers himself, bbut imagine him as they have fashioned him in their own presumption.

Those who set up a fictitious worship, merely worship and adore their own delirious fancies; indeed, they would never dare so to trifle with God, had they not previously fashioned him after their own childish conceits.