Quotes About Imagination

And if they are forced to a new idea, they turn it over like a child with a toy.

But then to go out to the Crimea to nurse she must be a woman of courage beyond the ordinary imagination, and to remain there, of a strength of purpose that neither danger nor pain could bend. "I

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how could you find magic if you did not believe in it?

There are so many books I mean to read, and things I mean to see.

The supernatural world has always been more real to me than the real world.

when we are weary, we speak lovingly of dreams as if they embodied our true deisres-What we WOULD have when that which we DO have so sorely disappoints us

I picture heaven as a vast library, with unlimited volumes to read. And paintings and statues to examine galore. I picture it as a great doorway to learning...rather than one great dull answer to all our questions

No, but one can feel desperate at any age, don't you think? The young are eternally desperate," he said frankly. "And books, they offer hope — that a whole universe might open up from between the covers, and falling into that universe one is saved.

Sleep is your friend. Dreams are your unwelcome guests.

so important to believe in a concept of goodness, even if we make it up ourselves. We don't really make it up. it's there, isn't it? Oh, yes, it's there, she said. It's there because we put it there.

Let my stories do what stories always do. Let them keep you from your darker dreams & from your darker journey. Let them keep you here.

Of course the moment I saw the books, I was overcome with pleasure. This always happens with me. I feel foolishly safe with books which can be a mistake.

I've lived all these years among those who create nothing and change nothing,' I said. 'Actors and musicians-they're saints to me.

But I still did not realize how mad she was, and how accustomed to dreaming; and that she would not cry out for reality, rather would feed reality to her dreams

He imagined his past gone, along with his future. Death was the understanding of the immediate present: that there is finally nothing else.

People create these extravagant habitats because they have vision, love of beauty, hopes and dreams.

Actors and actresses make magic,' I said. 'They make things happen on the stage; they invent; they create.

Laura remarked that science was dependent upon poetry, that all scientific description was metaphoric.

I don't need to sleep to play. I'm crazy anyway. Being crazier still could only help.

You painted armless beings, swimming in blinding color, and they had to exist like that forever. Could they see you with all those tiny, scattered eyes? Or did they only see the heaven and hell of their own shining realm, anchored to the studs in the wall by a piece of twisted wire?

I don't think you can hold in your mind the full conception of what the world is.

Most strange and wondrous, I thought, that the power of the mind was greater than the power of the hands.

It's hard to imagine Buffy the Vampire Slayer without Interview with the Vampire.