Quotes About Imagination

As a kid, this is what I wanted my life to be. Not in my wildest dreams did I ever dare to dream that it would be this.

Snowmen come to life during the full moon to devour children.

For the poet is a light and winged and holy thing, and there is no invention in him until he has been inspired and is out of his senses, and the mind is no longer in him: when he has not attained to this state, he is powerless and is unable to utter his oracles.

It's always more intriguing to imagine what's happening, as opposed to seeing everything, because then you can use your imagination. I always wanted to be at a distance.

That's the way I work: I try to imagine what I would like to see.

Many who have had an opportunity of knowing any more about mathematics confuse it with arithmetic, and consider it an arid science. In reality, however, it is a science which requires a great amount of imagination.

The reader doesn't want to see your chains and pulleys, he just wants the ride.

The more the reader's imagination can be substituted for detail from the writer, the greater the reader's experience will be.

All of these early exposures to offstage happenings contribute to the belief that stories are told. They can be a liability to writers later in life because the writer has to change his mind-set from telling what happened somewhere else to creating an experience for the reader by showing what happened. Twentieth

Poets tell many lies.

To P.J. (2 yrs old who sed write a poem for me in Portland, Oregon) if i cud ever write a poem as beautiful as u little 2/yr/old/brotha, I wud laugh, jump, leap up and touch the stars cuz u be the poem i try for each time i pick up a pen and paper. u. and Morani and Mungu be our blue/blk/stars that will shine on our lives and makes us finally BE. if i cud ever write a poem as beautiful as u, little 2/yr/old/brotha, poetry wud go out of bizness.

And I crept into my eyes. Alone with my daydreams of being woman.

i saw you vincent van gogh perched on those pennsylvania cornfields communing amid secret black bird societies. yes.

Mais le racisme n'est qu'un manque d'imagination. Et au fond, manquer d'imagination c'est être sérieusement "handicape mental".

More than this, I believe that the only lastingly important form of writing is writing for children. It is writing that is carried in the reader's heart for a lifetime; it is writing that speaks to the future.

it] would seem like a daydream, like touching a tiger's face in the dark.

We may have, she suggests, a thin boundary between our conscious and unconscious minds, living with one foot in the real world and one in the world inside our heads.

La fantasia dell'uomo è l'arma migliore della donna.

It is the job of art to replace unhappy true stories with happier inventions.

What you cannot imagine, you cannot fear.

If something is in a person's head, then it is real," Poirot said.

I know better than anyone that sometimes a possibility is enough to keep a person going, even if it never becomes a reality.

Poirot smoothed his mustache, as if he imagined that laughing might have shaken it out of shape.

Art speaks to the heart and soul more than to the mind.