Quotes About Imagination

maybe the greatest gift marriage gives us is the chance to fantasize, to imagine that there's more to life than there actually is, and it accomplishes this by assuming responsibility for all the misery and dullness that we would otherwise equate with life itself.

Ghosts may also exist because we will them to exist.

Algunas historias es mejor no escribirlas. Si la escribes, entonces será real. Si solo la conservamos en nuestros recuerdos es como si nunca hubiera pasado, como si sólo hubiera sido un sueño o una alucinación propia de chalados. Nadie cree lo que decimos, pero si lo escribes eso le dará, no sé, cierto fundamento. Lo volverá real.

Los procedimientos existen para impedir el contacto, no para favorecerlo. La gente sin imaginación y sin ideas llena su cabeza con programas y procedimientos. La gente con carácter sabe cuándo prescindir de los procedimientos.

Dreams were important, unconscious riddles that mirrored the heart.

Traza una línea, dale un golpe de color al lienzo... y todo se aclarará.

The woman in front of him seemed like the work of an artist who had taken the few lines that sketched out a teenager and added color and shape to create a full portrait.

La Tierra es redonda, pero es la gente que vive en ella la que crea los límites, y hace que sea terriblemente fácil caer al abismo, donde todavía hay monstruos que esperan ansiosos para tragarte.

lo que había deseado. Con una última mirada calle arriba y abajo, salió del coche murmurando para sí que estaba paranoica y que era una imbécil y que no tenía nada que temer. De todos modos, abrió el buzón con cuidado como si temiera encontrar una serpiente venenosa enrollada en el interior. Lo primero que vio fue el sobre blanco encima de un catálogo a todo

The claim that the only constraints on our success are the limits of our imagination, although generally false, has lifted hearts for millennia. Grand visions take precedence over prosaic numbers.

Art," said Picasso, "is a lie that makes us realize the truth.

Thou still unravish'd bride of quietness,Thou foster-child of silence and slow time,Sylvan historian, who canst thus expressA flowery tale more sweetly than our rhyme:What leaf-fring'd legend haunts about thy shape?

When I behold, upon the night's starr'd face,Huge cloudy symbols of a high romance.

Let the mad poets say whate'er they pleaseOf the sweets of Fairies, Peris, Goddesses,Haunters of cavern, lake, and waterfall,As a real woman, lineal indeedFrom Pyrrha's pebbles or old Adam's seed.

A hope beyond the shadow of a dream.

My spirit is too weak—mortalityWeighs heavily on me like unwilling sleep,And each imagin'd pinnacle and steepOf godlike hardship, tells me I must dieLike a sick Eagle looking at the sky.

O Attic shape! Fair attitude!

O for ten years, that I may overwhelmMyself in poesy; so I may do the deedThat my own soul has to itself decreed.

I am certain of nothing but the holiness of the Heart's affections and the truth of the Imagination.

Poetry should... should strike the reader as a wording of his own highest thoughts, and appear almost a remembrance.

The imagination of a boy is healthy, and the mature imagination of a man is healthy; but there is a space of life between, in which the soul is in a ferment, the character undecided, the way of life uncertain, the ambition thicksighted: thence proceeds mawkishness, and the thousand bitters which those men I speak of must necessarily taste in going over the following pages.

A drainless showerOf light is poesy; 'tis the supreme of power;'Tis might half slumb'ring on its own right arm.

Poetry should be great and unobtrusive, a thing which enters into one's soul, and does not startle it or amaze it with itself, but with its subject.

Asleep in lap of legends old.