Quotes About Imagination

We planned to enter the ruins the following day. What would we find? I couldn't even begin to imagine it.

She created a new world for herself. It blew my mind to see this animal acquire language. And then literally reshape her world with it.

Manuel is a superb engineer with no imagination whatsoever, which makes him doubly dangerous - talent married to convention.

I have my books. I don't live in the actual world. I am imperturbable.

who the heck is dorothy gale?

And what was he like? Did he have three heads?" "If he did, two must have been successfully removed in infancy.

Poems are like dreams: in them you put what you don't know you know.

Finally: there is always that in poetry which will not be grasped, which cannot be described, which survives our ardent attention, our critical theories, our classrooms, our late-night arguments. There is always (I am quoting the poet/translator Américo Ferrari) "an unspeakable where, perhaps, the nucleus of the living relation between the poem and the world resides.

No one has imagined us. We want to live like trees, sycamores blazing through the sulfuric air, dappled with scars, still exuberantly budding, our animal passion rooted in the city.

War is an absolute failure of imagination, scientific and political. That a war can be represented as helping a people to 'feel good' about themselves, or their country, is a measure of that failure.

Let go of all ideas and images in your mind, they come and go and aren't even generated by you. So why pay so much attention to your imagination when reality is for the realizing right now?

We've become trapped in a world of dreams, a world in which we live primarily in our minds.

Dreams are free.

Our mere anticipations of life outrun its realities.

The level of our success is limited only by our imagination and no act of kindness, however small, is ever wasted.

I don't think necessity is the mother of invention - invention, in my opinion, arises directly from idleness, possibly also from laziness. To save oneself trouble.

The best time for planning a book is while you're doing the dishes.

You gave too much rein to your imagination. Imagination is a good servant, and a bad master. The simplest explanation is always the most likely.

I suppose it is because nearly all children go to school nowadays and have things arranged for them that they seem so forlornly unable to produce their own ideas.

It had come about ex­act­ly in the way things hap­pened in books.

A woman who doesn't lie is a woman without imagination and without sympathy.

People should be interested in books, not their authors.

The trouble with you and me, is that we don't live in the real world. We dream of fantastic things that may never happen.

fiction is founded on truth... unless things did happen, people couldn't think of them.