Quotes About Imagination

Words cannot describe all the things I have left to write

Live out of your imagination, not your history.

He had been out among the dragons, he said, and he assured himself that they were not so hideous as he had imagined them. Also

His face had been twisted into an expression of every agony he had imagined for his friend.

Implicit in this is the conviction that the poem or piece of fiction is a made-thing. It is neither received from outside or erupts out of the artist's peculiar sensitivity and superiority.

Donald Justice's admonition that a good poem should exhibit "that maximum amount of wildness that the form can bear" is also relevant, though again it's equally useful to think of expanding the notion of form to accommodate even more of the wild.

Under the circumstances, "a sense of humor and a great faith, or else a complete lack of imagination, are essential to sanity.

Gaia visited her daughter Mnemosyne, who was busy being unpronounceable.

I have a dark and dreadful secret. I write poetry... I believe poetry is a primal impulse within all of us. I believe we are all capable of it and furthermore that a small, often ignored corner of us positively yearns to try it.

Not one word of the following is true

It is probably best for us not to concentrate in too literal a fashion on the temporal structure of myth.

The action is played out on the golden horizon between reality and legend, the beguiling penumbra where fable and fact coexist.

I get an urge, like a pregnant elephant, to go away and give birth to a book.

Forget ideas, Mr. Author. What kind of pen do you use?

I believe that poetry is a primal impulse within us all.

Just let the words fly from your lips and your pen. Give them rhythm and depth and height and silliness. Give them filth and form and noble stupidity. Words are free and all words, light and frothy, firm and sculpted as they may be, bear the history of their passage from lip to lip over thousands of years. How they feel to us now tells us whole stories of our ancestors.

Of course the Greeks were not the only people to weave a tapestry of legends and lore out of the puzzling fabric of existence.

Absolutely,' lies Zeus, who has, in common with us all, a horror of hearing the details of anyone else's dreams.

You should have said where fact ends and fantasy begins. If that's what you wanted to know." "Isn't it the same thing?" "No, it's not. Mother's like a spring flower. That's not strictly a fact. But it is true.

These are the kind of wrong thoughts people have who are spending too much time alone. They start unpacking vast cosmic bullshit from gum wrappers, and then they chew it up, blow a bubble, ride that bubble up into some even stupider place.

I regard the afterlife to be a fairy story for people that are afraid of the dark

So remember to look up at the stars and not down at your feet. Try to make sense of what you see and wonder about what makes the universe exist. Be curious. And however difficult life may seem, there is always something you can do and succeed at. It matters that you don't just give up. Unleash your imagination. Shape the future.

I have spent my life travelling across the universe, inside my mind.

And one final point—we never really know where the next great scientific discovery will come from, nor who will make it. Opening up the thrill and wonder of scientific discovery, creating innovative and accessible ways to reach out to the widest young audience possible, greatly increases the chances of finding and inspiring the new Einstein. Wherever she might be.