Quotes About Imagination

In me there have always been two fools, among others, one asking nothing better than to stay where he is and the other imagining that life might be slightly less horrible a little further on.

Then I went back into the house and wrote, It is midnight. The rain is beating on the windows. It was not midnight. It was not raining.

There is nothing so unthinkable as thought, unless it be the entire absence of thought.

The great characters of fiction live as truly as the memories of dead men. For the life after death it is not necessary that a man or woman should have lived.

Sketching from nature is very like trying to put a pinch of salt on her tail. And yet many manage to do it very nicely.

Life is not an exact science, it is an art.

Books want to be born: I never make them. They come to me and insist on being written, and on being such and such.

A credulous mind . . . finds most delight in believing strange things, and the stranger they are the easier they pass with him; but never regards those that are plain and feasible, for every man can believe such.

Our minds want clothes as much as our bodies.

At other times when not quite well he would have them in for the fun of shaking his will at them. He would in his imagination cut them all out one after another and leave his money to found almshouses, till at last he was obliged to put them back, so that he might have the pleasure of cutting them out again the next time he was in a passion.

No man was ever yet a great poet, without at the same time being a profound philosopher.

When you believe in what you're doing and use your imagination and initiative, you can make a difference.

Dream dreams and write them aye, but live them first.

Let's have some new cliches.

Let's have some new clichés.

Some desire is necessary to keep life in motion, and he whose real wants are supplied must admit those of fancy.

Scarcely any degree of judgment is sufficient to restrain the imagination from magnifying that on which it is long detained

The two most engaging powers of an author: new things are made familiar, and familiar things are made new.

The use of traveling is to regulate imagination by reality, and instead of thinking how things may be, to see them as they are.

To a poet nothing can be useless.

Were it not for imagination, sir, a man would be as happy in the arms of a chambermaid as of a duchess.

When learning's triumph o'er her barb'rous foesFirst rear'd the stage, immortal Shakespeare rose;Each change of many-color'd life he drew,Exhausted worlds, and then imagin'd new:Existence saw him spurn her bounded reign,And panting Time toil'd after him in vain.

Were it not for imagination a man would be as happy in arms of a chambermaid as of a duchess.

No man will be found in whose mind airy notions do not sometimes tyrannize, and force him to hope or fear beyond the limits of sober probability.