Quotes About Imagination

With a great poet the sense of Beauty overcomes every other consideration, or rather obliterates all consideration.

As to the poetical character itself… it is not itself—it has no self—it is every thing and nothing… It has as much delight in conceiving an Iago as an Imogen.

What the imagination seizes as beauty must be truth.

At once it struck me, what quality went to form a Man of Achievement especially in Literature & which Shakespeare possessed so enormously—I mean Negative Capability, that is, when man is capable of being in uncertainties, Mysteries, doubts, without any irritable reaching after fact & reason.

I cannot see what flowers are at my feet,Nor what soft incense hangs upon the boughs,But, in embalmed darkness, guess each sweet.

Ever let the fancy roam,Pleasure never is at home.

How many bards gild the lapses of time!

Poetry should surprise by a fine excess and not by Singularity—it should strike the Reader as a wording of his own highest thoughts, and appear almost a Remembrance.

I am certain of nothing but the holiness of the heart's affections and the truth of imagination. What the imagination seizes as beauty must be truth - whether it existed before or not.

Poetry should please by a fine excess and not by singularity. It should strike the reader as a wording of his own highest thoughts, and appear almost as 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 thick-sighted: thence proceeds mawkishness.

The problems of the world cannot possible be solved by skeptics or cynics whose horizons are limited by the obvious realities. We need men who can dream of things that never were.

What the imagination seizes as beauty must be the truth.

Heard melodies are sweet, but those unheard, are sweeter

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

Whatever the imagination seizes as Beauty must be truth -whether it existed before or not

My imagination is a monastery, and I am its monk

Where what is known is so surprising and where what is unknown is so extensive, almost anything can be surmised

Water takes the shape of whatever container holds it, whether it be in a glass, a vase or a river bank. Likewise, your subconscious will create and manifest according to the images you habitually project upon it through your daily thinking. This is how your destiny is created. Your life is in your hands, to make of it what you choose.

LEADERSHIP A form of self-preservation exhibited by people with autodestructive imaginations in order to ensure that when it comes to the crunch itll be someone elses bones which go crack and not their own.

I never remember my dreams which suits me fine.

There was no harm in taking aim, even if the target was a dream.

We sketch monsters on the map because we find their presence comforting. They guard the edges of the abyss, and force us to look away; so we can live comfortably in the Known World, at least for a little while.

anemoia nostalgia for a time you never experienced.