Quotes About Imagination

has a knee-jerk tendency to avoid extremes as implausible, but 'fantasy' actively embraces them. It magnifies and clarifies the human condition.

I live in Ireland every day in a drizzly dream of a Dublin walk...

a dream isn't a wish - it's an altered state of consciousness ...

How terrible, those dreams before sleep were—the worse kind, mixing hope with despair...

have I told you? - your eyes are a dark poem of dancing snow at midnight ...

everyone wants to be excited by something magical and wondrous - to be reminded of how they once saw the world ...

you do violence with your words if you force them - art is given - the words received, moment by moment from unseen hands - call it a Muse ...

when you're hard and unyielding your words score me with lines - I hate lines - I want curves - curves are happy like a snowman ...

no good writing flows from a polluted well - you can write about monsters, but you can't be one...

you fantasize about me reading my poems to you - it doesn't work that way - I write down everything later - living is not an after-thought...

these vignettes I sketch for you - what are they? watercolors ..yes and dreams blurred with tears ...

little children adore me - I'm a Troll Tamer and they know it!...

Myths aren't fairy tales or legends—they're an honest attempt to explain mysteries...

my sacred landscape is the foothills of the stars - I go there often to sleep ...

consider yourself a functional character in someone else's novel - a background character - a person on the street - that's the perspective ...

you forget love - though you fled from them, you secretly loved the monsters of your childhood...

don't settle for pap - our thoughts wander through eternity - experience the wonder of being alive...

when you're a writer, you become deeper and more uniquely distinct, the more you go inside yourself...

it's good to know wave and particle alpha code, but more than that, the writer must go to the heart of life ...

some writers closet themselves - I write wherever I am because that's where life is happening ...

all kinds of images swim like tropical fish in the bathysphere inside my skull ...

I know Shakespeare said art is holding up a mirror to nature- but you're actually bending and refracting it through your interior dialogue ...

I retreat into my fictional world where everything makes sense - but even there I can't even control what people do...

N MY early boyhood I was enraptured by the great fairytale illustrators of the period: Arthur Rackham, Edmond Dulac, Kay Nielsen. As a schoolboy, I was to discover Aubrey Beardsley, and I was extremely fond of an edition of A Midsummer Night's Dream with most imaginative drawings by Heath Robinson,