Quotes About Imagination

It's his way of saying that dreams are more important than we can ever imagine-we just need to listen.

Literature is a cake with many toys baked inside- and even if you find them all, if you don't enjoy the path that leads you to them, it will be a hollow accomplishment....'They knew everything about literature except how to enjoy it.' p. 90

William Shakespeare called dreams the 'children of an idle brain, begot of nothing but vain fantasy.

What if I'm a princess on another planet? And no one on this planet knows it?

Every girl needs a bit of whimsy to remind her that life is a game and it's all about having fun.

Happy are these who lose imagination: They have enough to carry with ammunition. Their spirit drags no pack, Their old wounds save with cold cannot more ache. Having seen all things red, Their eyes are rid Of the hurt of the colour of blood for ever. And terror's first constriction over, Their senses in some scorching cautery of battle Now long since ironed, Can laugh among the dying, unconcerned.

your reality is only what you conceive in your mind!

If your everyday life seems poor, don't blame it; blame yourself; admit to yourself that you are not enough of a poet to call forth its riches; because for the creator there is no poverty and no poor indifferent place.

Thank you," she says and yanks the pull-tab off the soda can. She takes a big sip and aaahs. Then she takes the pull-tab and puts it on her ring finger like a wedding band. She holds her hand out and looks at it. "Someday," she says wistfully. "Wow, a soda pop pull-tab ring. You're easy. Most girls want their ring from Tiffany's." "Well, I'm not most girls." She's telling me?

A la gente que nos gusta leer, el mundo real nos da lo mismo.

Esto de planear en la oscuridad es más fácil de lo que la mayoría de la gente supone. Basta con cerrar los ojos, extender los brazos y dejarse llevar. Hay quien lo llama imaginación. Allá ellos.

When I am reading a poem, I rarely feel alone in the room. The poet and I are together. It's as if the poet wrote a secret diary years ago.

Now you two spindly Earthmen are going to have the best meal of your lives! Broiled dinosaur on real Venusian black bread!

There was no difference between my characters and the life my readers were going to have to face.

Melville brought to the task a sound knowledge of actual whaling, much curious learning in the literature of the subject, and, above all, an imagination which worked with great power upon the facts of his own experience.

Dream is not so different from deed as many believe," he wrote. "All activity of men begins as dream and later becomes dream once more.

Projections change the world into the replica of one's own unknown face.

I have never since entirely freed myself of the impression that this life is a segment of existence which is enacted in a three-dimensional boxlike universe especially set up for it.

Without this playing with fantasy no creative work has ever yet come to birth. The debt we owe to the play of imagination is incalculable.

Although my belief in the world returned to me, I have never since entirely freed myself of the impression that this life is a segment of existence which is enacted in a three-dimensional boxlike universe especially set up for it.

My father used to say that you live most of your life inside your own head, so make sure it's a good space.

But Erin let it slide. The child was only four years old; she had a whole lifetime to learn about sadness. Today was for Dalmatians, ice cream and new dolls.

The debt we owe to the play of imagination is incalculable.

The creative mind plays with the object it loves.