Quotes About Imagination

One poem proves another and the whole, For the clairvoyant men that need no proof: The lover, the believer and the poet

The magnificent cause of being— The imagination, the one reality In this imagined world— Leaves you With him for whom no phantasy moves, And you are pierced by a death.

The final belief is to believe in a fiction, which you know to be a fiction, there being nothing else. The exquisite truth is to know that it is a fiction and that you believe in it willingly." ? Wallace Stevens, Opus Posthumous: Poems, Plays, Prose

It is not an artifice that the mind has added to human nature. The mind has added nothing to human nature. It is a violence from within that protects us from a violence without It is the imagination pressing back against the pressure of reality. It seems, in the last analysis, to have something to do wIth our self-preservation; and that, no doubt, is why the expression of it, the sound of its words, helps us to live our lives.

Reality is a cliché from which we escape by metaphor.

It is not everyday that the world arranges itself into a poem.

The final belief is to believe in a fiction, which you know to be a fiction, there being nothing else. The exquisite truth is to know that it is a fiction and that you believe in it willingly.

The reader became the book; and summer night Was like the conscious being of the book.

in the presence of extraordinary actuality, consciousness takes the place of imagination.

Poetry is an abstraction bloodied.

It was the way of Emma Lou always to create her worlds within her own mind without taking under consideration the fact that other people and other elements, not contained within herself, would also have to aid in their molding.

Poetry is not about authority. Poetry is one of the few thing we all have access to all the time that transcends and transforms authority into freedom.

Look, don't just stare at the pages," I used to tell my students. "Become the characters. Live inside the book.

You can design and create, and build the most wonderful place in the world. But it takes people to make the dream a reality.

I believe in being an innovator.

Too many people grow up. That`s the real trouble with the world, too many people grow up. They forget. They don`t remember what it`s like to be 12 years old. They patronize, they treat children as inferiors. Well I won`t do that

Fantasy, if it's really convincing, can't become dated, for the simple reason that it represents a flight into a dimension that lies beyond the reach of time.

But they say if you dream a thing more than once, it's sure to come true.

There is more treasure in books than in all the pirates' loot on Treasure Island and best of all, you can enjoy these riches every day of your life.

It's kind of fun to do the impossible.

Here you leave today and enter the world of yesterday, tomorrow, and fantasy.

Mickey Mouse popped out of my mind onto a drawing pad 20 years ago on a train ride from Manhattan to Hollywood at a time when business fortunes of my brother Roy and myself were at lowest ebb and disaster seemed right around the corner.

Disneyland is a work of love. We didn't go into Disneyland just with the idea of making money.

Animation can explain whatever the mind of man can conceive. This facility makes it the most versatile and explicit means of communication yet devised for quick mass appreciation.