Quotes About Imagination

get to fly while you're still a little

Flute, the dragon, and Elmer waited quietly while the King looked at the ground, then up at the tree, and then down at the ground. "Treasure!

Interviewer: The other day, when we first talked, you said that you felt that, when you were writing, you were often following invisible patterns. Stone: I don't see them so much as hear them, and I know that a poem will happen and later I will look at it, and say: Wow, where did that come from? how did I do that? I didn't set out to do that, but the neural connections are so fast, the body, the self is so slow, (laughs) that you're kind of astonished. It's odd.

The most beautiful videos come from reading poetry. And they're in your head.

WHAT IS A POEM? Such slight changes in air pressure, Tongue and palate, And the difference in teeth. Transparent words. Why do I want to say ochre, Or what is green-yellow? The sisters of those leaves on the ground Still lisp on the branches. Why do I want to imitate them? Having come this far With a handful of alphabet, I am forces, With these few blocks, To invent the universe.

Strange imagined shapes of things, wild distortions of the familiar, like the galaxies, pinpoints, of the imagined; until the polished multiple eyes of lofted telescopes — while buffeted by cosmic dust and plasma — passed down bit by bit the great glass marble of the universe.

In the Next Galaxy Things will be different. No one will lose their sight, their hearing, their gallbladder. It will be all Catskills with brand new wrap-around verandas. The idea of Hitler will not have vibrated yet. While back here, they are still cleaning out pockets of wrinkled Nazis hiding in Argentina. But in the next galaxy, certain planets will have true blue skies and drinking water.

I'm in a comic book now. That was cool. That's something that I'm still sorta reeling about, 'cause I read comics as a kid. Someone drew me, and actually did a pretty good job!

you know: CLOUDY WITH A CHANCE OF HUGS IS THE ENTIRE REASON I EVER ENGAGE IN ANY NARRATIVE, FICTIONAL OR OTHERWISE??

Scientists need to invent a way to make DNA work like in cartoons.

Algebraic to the limit!

In this dream world we doze and talk of dreams— dream, dream on, as much as you wish

Let your dreams outgrow the shoes of your expectations.

I have no idea why I write. The old standards are: I like to express my feelings, stretch my imagination, earn money.

The madman is a dreamer awake

In a very real sense, people who have read good literature have lived more than people who cannot or will not read. It is not true that we have only one life to lead; if we can read, we can live as many more lives and as many kinds of lives as we wish.

In a real sense, people who have read good literature have lived more than people who cannot or will not read. It is not true that we have only one life to live; if we can read, we can live as many more lives and as many kinds of lives as we wish.

Great writing is a submission to a creative force that seems to use the writer as an instrument. The writer finds that the words stream out, almost as if someone else were producing them. Writing becomes a process of discovery.

Imagine how different you would be if the history of your world was different,' said the tyger. "There are infinite possible histories of the world, and of yourselves. So you should never stop questioning the world, and everything in it; wondering how it could be different.

Perhaps not yet,' said the tyger, 'but you have the potential. Every human being has it. At first, only immortals did. But then someone stole a spark from the fires of infinity, and gave it to your kind. So now the power of creation is yours, like perception and imagination. And with these powers, there is nothing you cannot do.

Hold on to your dreams,' said the tyger. 'They will help you change the world, or create new worlds, for every time you make a choice, that is what you do. And if you can dream of something - then in all of infinity, there must be at least one world in which that dream is real.

It is not true we have only one life to love, if we can read, we can live as many lives and as many kinds of lives as we wish.

It is not true that we have only one life to live; if we can read, we can live us many more lives and as many kind of lives as we wish.

Exactitude is the lowest form of pictorial gratification.