Quotes About Imagination

The place for truth is not in the facts of a novel; it is in the feelings.

And in another light-year or two I was through the word-barrier, and the book had suddenly reached the stage – the wonderful moment to get to – where I could walk right into my imaginary country and see things that I had not consciously created, and listen to people talking and watch them moving, all apparently independent of me.

La invención, debe ser admitido humildemente, no consiste en crear desde el vacío, sino desde el caos [...] consiste en la capacidad de atrapar las posibilidades de un tema y en el poder de moldear y dar forma a las ideas que sugiere.

I also became a poet, and for one year lived in a Paradise of my own creation; I imagined that I also might obtain a niche in the temple where the names of Homer and Shakespeare are consecrated.

Invention, it must be humbly admitted, does not consist in creating out of void, but out of chaos;

partly as an expedient for exercising any untried resources of mind.

These tales excited in us a playful desire of imitation.

Para mí el mundo era un secreto que anhelaba descubrir, para ella era un vacío que se afanaba por poblar con imaginaciones personales.

You hate me; but your abhorrence cannot equal that with which I regard myself. I look on the hands which executed the deed; I think on the heart in which the imagination of it was conceived, and long for the moment when they will meet my eyes, when it haunt my thoughts, no more.

I will pioneer a new way, explore unknown powers, and unfold to the world the deepest mysteries of creation.

I delighted in investigating the facts relative to the actual world; she busied herself in following the aerial creations of the poets. The world was to me a secret, which I desired to discover; to her it was a vacancy, which she sought to people with imaginations of her own.

Cuando alguien a quien amamos muere, deseamos volver a encontrarlo en otro estado y albergamos a medias la esperanza de que la imaginación consiga recrearlo con el mismo aspecto de su vestimenta mortal.

Darkness had no effect upon my fancy; and a churchyard was to me merely the receptacle of bodies deprived of life, which, from being the seat of beauty and strength, had become food for the worm.

I trod heaven in my thoughts, now exulting in my powers, now burning with the idea of their effects.

Mi sembrava un sogno, però chiaro e oppressivo come la realtà.

I read and studied the wild fancies of these writers with delight; they appeared to me treasures known to few besides myself.

I too can create desolation

Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

I look on the hands which executed the deed; I think on the heart in which the imagination of it was conceived, and long for the moment when these hands will meet my eyes, when that imagination will haunt my thoughts no more.

I was a solitary being, and from my infant years, ever since my dear nurse left me, I had been a dreamer.

I think fiction may be, whatever else, an exercise in the capacity for imaginative love, or sympathy, or identification. -Imagination & Community Essay

Joy, happiness, are hopes and our dreams.... A place of peace and harmony... that's the kind of land I invision.

American political conversation had become a space free from imagination and aspiration. Rather than talk about the future, we talked about policy; rather than talk about what's right and just, we talked about what's realistic and lawful; rather than discuss values, we discussed strategies. It was this dull, neutral, largely hollow space that Trump so easily filled with his crudeness, cruelty, and lies.

the peculiar ability to see triangles and hexagons where others see only a party.