Quotes About Imagination

To discover the future it is not necessary to be a seer, but it is absolutely vital to be unorthodox.

But all of these things now exist. (What? Hogwarts isn't real?)

Stories are like a river that flows - you dip a bucket in it

Reading is not daily its a life style for all readers.

The most, MOST important thing is to read. Read all the time; read when they tell you not to read, what they tell you not to read, read with a flashlight under the covers, read on the bus, standing on a corner, waiting for a friend, in the dentist's waiting room. Read every minute you can. READ LIKE A WOLF EATS. Read. 

Dad still believes that everything will always work out. I believe that nothing ever happens like you think it will. But both of us know that real life is always a million times better than anything you can imagine.

The difference between being smart and being really smart is looking at things in a way no one would ever expect.

So now I don't feel normal unless I've got a book in my hands, and I feel the most normal when I'm lost in a story and can ignore the complicated situations around me that never seem to work out as neatly as they do in books.

I owe everything I am and everything I will ever be, to books.

You dream of a desert, where mirages are your rulers and tormentors, yet these images come from you.

my books only know the minds of their authors.

Creative thinking, working with your mind, that's my number-one prescription for longevity. If you stop thinking, if you stop wondering, you die.

Let's see if I can write about something other than my heart.

Alcohol is the gift of any narration, and any writer thrills to the thwop of a corkscrew being pulled.

Clarity, especially in poetry, requires conceiving of your work as a collaborative act of imagination with the audience, thus affording them the deepest respect.

How Poetry Comes to Me It comes blundering over the Boulders at night, it stays Frightened outside the Range of my campfire I go to meet it at the Edge of the light

Like imagination and the body, language rises unbidden.

The philosophy of poetry must acknowledge that the poetic act has no past, at least no recent past, in which its preparation and appearance could be followed.

Nobody knows that in reading we are re-living our temptations to be a poet. All readers who have a certain passion for reading, nurture and repress, through reading, the desire to become a writer.

The poetic image is a sudden salience on the surface of the psyche

In the theater of the past that is constituted by memory, the stage setting maintains the characters in their dominant roles . . . . And if we want to go beyond history, or even, while remaining in history, detach from our own history the always too contingent history of the persons who have encumbered it, we realize that the calendars of our lives can only be established in its imagery.

All readers who have a certain passion for reading, nurture and repress, through reading, the desire to become a writer.

Therefore, the places in which we have experienced day dreaming reconstitute themselves in a new daydream, and it is because our memories of former dwelling-places are relived as day-dreams these dwelling-places of the past remain in us for all the time.

The poetic image exists apart from causality.