Quotes About Imagination

I've got a lot of books in my head, so hopefully we can be friends for a long time. With all my heart, mind, body, and soul … thank you!

Oh, if Plato could see me now ! Aristotle, traveler of time!

Just kidding. That's really good, actually. I'm glad you weren't attacked by KillSims or Rodents of Unusual Size.

And after that the dream faded,

Hey", he said again. "I'm gonna go down to Mrs. Jackson's place and murder her whole family. Then I'm gonna fly to the moon and eat some chickens. Be right back." "Okay," she murmured.

then reading for an hour in bed (the latest seven-inch-thick fantasy novel he'd checked out from the library),

Being an actor is the loneliest thing in the world. You are all alone with your concentration and imagination, and that's all you have.

To grasp the full significance of life is the actor's duty; to interpret it his problem; and to express it his dedication. Being an actor is the loneliest thing in the world. You are all alone with your concentration and imagination, and that's all you have. Being a good actor isn't easy. Being a man is even harder. I want to be both before I'm done.

A poet is someone who stands outside in the rain hoping to be struck by lightning.

A poet is someone who stands outside in the rain hoping to be struck by lightening.

I had begun to suspect, however, that there is a poet—or a kind of poet—buried in every human being like Ariel in his tree, and that the people whom we are pleased to call poets are only those who have felt the need and contrived the means to release this spirit from its prison

That's all anybody has got. It depends on how strong your fantasy is, and whether you really — really — in your own mind, fit into your own fantasy, whether you measure up to what you've fantasized. I don't know what yours is, but I'll bet you don't come up to it.

I like to think of thoughts as living blossoms borne by the human tree.

No one has claim to originality in literature; all writers are more or less faithful amanuenses of the spirit, translators and annotators of pre-existing archetypes.

he hath scattered the proud in the imagination of their hearts.

Acting is not about anything romantic, not even fantasy, although you do create fantasy.

A person in search of his ancestors naturally likes to believe the best of them, and the best in terms of contemporary standards. Where genealogical facts are few, and these located in the remote past, reconstruction of family history is often more imaginative than correct.

The world is full of poetry. The air is living with its spirit and the waves dance to the music of its melodies, and sparkle in its brightness.

What color is the wind? Blew.

A kenning is a metaphorical circumlocution consisting of paired nouns or a noun phrase. For example, in ancient Icelandic verse, a sword is not a sword but an "icicle of blood"; a ship is not a ship but the "horse of the sea"; and eyes are not eyes but the "moons of the forehead." Similarly, the earth is "the floor of the hall of the winds" or "the sea trodden on by animals," while fire is "destroyer of timber" or "the sun of houses.

You don't see something until you have the right metaphor to let you perceive it

In a world where carpenters get resurrected, everything is possible.

If you're going to frame a crazy, build a crazy frame.

He forced his mind to picture a brick wall, to feel a brick wall, smell a brick wall, become a brick wall. He lost all sense of time, but the bricks stood out. He heard the voices questioning him, but he turned their sounds to bricks for his wall.