Quotes About Imagination

Unicorn Island

Theater is far superior to film in poetry, in abstract poetry.

I was always someone who lived in the future all the time, it was always the next thing - dreams of escape.

A book acts as the getaway car when you need to escape. Even when you're the one writing it.

Writers don't have bad life days; they just have good research days.

The more I work with birds, the more I believe in the undreamt, the things we are not given to know.

This stretch through the fogbound forest gradually lulled Grange into his favorite daydream; in it he saw an image of his life: all that he had he carried with him; twenty feet away, the world grew dark, perspectives blurred, and there was nothing near him but this close halo of warm consciousness, this nest perched high above the vague earth.

A volte scriveva, ma era un'occupazione che lo stancava un po', e poi non concepiva l'idea di gustarsi la gioia di pensare mettendo per iscritto le fantasticherie della mente, a meno che quella fatica non gli avesse permesso di guadagnarsi da vivere. Era convinto che in genere le idee più felici non tollerano di essere espresse, giacché perdono tutta la loro originaria freschezza e appassiscono non appena vengono affidate alla penna. (L'inferno)

Copying is out of the question; only fools and impostors copy. No, the thing is to produce something as good, if possible, out of your own resources. And so begins the strange torture of the blank sheet of paper, where you must open a window that is not the one I spotted just now but one equally insistent in its truthfulness.

Things we could not tell each other with the width of the Atlantic between us we communicated from heart to heart in those imaginary conversations.

Anderswo, morgen, das sind für Sie immer noch magische Worte. Aber sie werden entdecken: anderswo, das ist hier, und morgen haben wir bereits.

The novelist is like a scout commissioned to go and see what is happening in the depth of the soul. He comes back and reports what he has observed.

Nature is only another chimera.

A dream is the key that unlocks the mysteries of the waking world...

Form one essential vision when you start your drawing that will be evident upon completion

Remember that it is your goal to not create a photographic likeness, but an emotional accuracy.

To put yourself in another's place requires real imagination, but by doing so each Girl Scout will be able to love among others happily.

No te voy a cansar con más poemas. Digamos que te dije nubes, tijeras, barriletes, lápices, y acaso alguna vez sonreíste.

You're like a witness. You're the one who goes to the museum and looks at the paintings. I mean the paintings are there and you're in the museum too, near and far away at the same time. I'm a painting. Rocamadour is a painting. Etienne is a painting, this room is a painting. You think that you're in the room but you're not. You're looking at the room, you're not in the room.

Before going back to sleep I imagined (I saw) a plastic universe, changeable, full of wondrous chance, an elastic sky, a sun that suddenly is missing or remains fixed or changes its shape.

Cuando los cronopios cantan sus canciones preferidas, se entusiasman de tal manera que con frecuencia se dejan atropellar por camiones y ciclistas, se caen por la ventana, y pierden lo que llevaban en los bolsillos y hasta la cuenta de los días.

Como no sabías disimular me dí cuenta enseguida de que para verte como yo quería era necesario empezar por cerrar los ojos.

La Maga did not know that my kisses were like eyes which began to open up beyond her, and that I went along outside as if I saw a different concept of the world, the dizzy pilot of a black prow which cut the water of time and negated it.

Y que el placer que juntos inventamos sea otro signo de libertad.