Quotes About Imagination

Ed. Note: not literally. Just on Planet Amigo.

Design is an unknown.

Whoso shal telle a tale after a man,He moot reherce as ny as evere he kanEverich a word, if it be in his charge,Al speke he never so rudeliche and large,Or ellis he moot telle his tale untrewe,Or feyne thyng, or fynde wordes new.

people can die of mere imagination

How potent is the fancy! People are so impressionable, they can die of imagination.

After two or more centuries of experimentation, socialists should be able to point to an alternative system that works, rather than comparing the actual world with an idealized system of their imagination.

Sometimes english masters make you read poems chiz chiz chiz. You have to sa the weedy words and speke them beatifully as if you knew what they meant. Fotherington-tomas thinks this is absolutely super and when he sa he wander lonely as a cloud you think he will flote out of the window.

Every fictioneer re-invents the world because the facts, things or people of the received world are unacceptable.

The trick here is, while the actual pleasure begins to recede and blur, we simultaneously bring the imagined pleasure more fully into focus. And when we do, even the memory of the pleasure becomes more and more heightened and imagined, thus anticipation is increased. This kind of anticipation is the spiritual equivalent of a Cheeto and we want them to eat the whole bag.

First of all, don't ever let them try to define that word "happiness" for themselves. They can't and that's precisely what we never want them to realize. Keep it a vague bright mist hovering about their heads. Locate it securely at the end of implausible rainbows. Hide it snugly in some corner of their thoughts they rarely visit.

When their minds mingle with His magnanimity, something of eternity rubs off on their imaginations.

An imagined pleasure is never really the pleasure, but an imagined pain, in a very real sense, is the pain, because so much of pain is the consciousness of it. It makes itself objective. Whereas to think about pleasure is to step outside of it; to think about a presently felt pain is to step inside it. And in a very real sense, we've already got them in Hell.

Press them continually with memory and dream and have them waste their Present there.

Just about this time, when in imagination I was so great a warrior, I had good use in real life for more strength, as I was no longer taken to school by the nurse, but instead had myself to protect my brother, two years my junior.

The pleasures of the imagination are as it were only drawings and models which are played with by poor people who cannot afford the real thing.

Everyone is a genius at least once a year. The real geniuses simply have their bright ideas closer together.

There is something in our minds like sunshine and the weather, which is not under our control. When I write, the best things come to me from I know not where.

If you are going to build something in the air it is always better to build castles than houses of cards.

Vorstellungen sind auch ein Leben und eine Welt

Nowadays three witty turns of phrase and a lie make a writer.

A world without fairy tales and myths would be as drab as life without music

Some people see things that are and ask, Why Some people dream of things that never were and ask, Why not Some people have to go to work and don't have time for all that ...

Movies are about escape.

Nothing is improbable until it moves into past tense.