Quotes About Imagination

In this world things are beautiful only because they are not quite seen, or not perfectly understood. Poetry is precious chiefly because it suggests more than it declares.

Les miroirs sont nos auberges espagnoles.

Leemos porque, aunque leer no sea indispensable para vivir, la vida es más agradable, más clara, más rica para aquellos que leen que para aquellos que no lo hacen. En un sentido más simple todavía: vivir es más fácil para aquellos que saben leer, no solamente las noticias, las instrucciones de uso, las ordenanzas, los periódicos y las papeletas de voto, sino también los textos literarios.

If you want to build a ship, don't drum up people together to collect wood and don't assign them tasks and work, but rather teach them to long for the endless immensity of the sea.

Quand tu veux construire un bateau, ne commence pas par rassembler du bois, couper des planches et distribuer du travail, mais reveille au sein des hommes le desir de la mer grande et large. If you want to build a ship, don't drum up people together to collect wood and don't assign them tasks and work, but rather teach them to long for the endless immensity of the sea.

A pile of rocks ceases to be a rock when somebody contemplates it with the idea of a cathedral in mind.

The theoretician believes in logic and believes that he despises dreams, intuition, and poetry. He does not recognize that these three fairies have only disguised themselves in order to dazzle him.... He does not know that he owes his greatest discoveries to them.

If you want to build a ship, don't herd people together to collect wood and don't assign them tasks and work, but rather teach them to long for the endless immensity of the sea.

A rock pile ceases to be a rock pile the moment a single man contemplates it, bearing within him the image of a cathedral.

Tessie Moran, eighteen and not yet in love, was dreaming of handsome young men and moonlight. She could not easily be roused from her enchantment.

There is nothing new in art except talent.

The role of the artist is to ask questions, not answer them.

But perhaps the universe is suspended on the tooth of some monster.

He who desires nothing, hopes for nothing, and is afraid of nothing, cannot be an artist.

In a dream, in a fairytale, nothing has to be explained, everything happens of its own accord.

The place in her, though, where her tears should have come from, was rough and dry. No, she didn't find any tears in herself to cry for the storyteller. The storyteller didn't exist anymore.

Había cerrado los ojos... era más fácil sentir con los ojos cerrados.

We must believe in a sense of life renewed by the theater, a sense of life in which man fearlessly makes himself master of what does not yet exist, and brings it into being. And everything that has not been born can still be brought to life if we are not satisfied to remain mere recording organisms.

If our life lacks a constant magic it is because we choose to observe our acts and lose ourselves in consideration of their imagined form and meaning, instead of being impelled by their force.

No one has ever written, painted, sculpted, modeled, built, or invented except literally to get out of hell.

I get caught up in my bubble of reading, writing, or music.

A book is a blossoming of hope.

books, pocket-size jewels, open up like doors to worlds you never knew existed.

Me encontré con la Luna, que era una mujer gorda y desnuda, sentada en el horizonte.