Quotes About Imagination

Fear, Leni learned, was not the small dark closet she'd always imagined; walls pressed in close, a ceiling you bumped your head on, a floor cold to the touch. No. Fear was a mansion, one room after another, connected by endless hallways.

To be a great photographer you had to see first and feel later.

Everyone in your dreams is you.

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

If a man imagined that I was his arch-enemy and killed me, I should be dead on account of mere imagination. Imaginary conditions do exist and they may be just as real and just as harmful or dangerous as physical conditions. I even believe that psychic disturbances are far more dangerous than epidemics [of physical disease] or earthquakes.

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

The creative mind plays with the objects it loves.

One does not become enlightened by imagining figures of light," he said, "but by making the darkness conscious. The latter procedure, however, is disagreeable and therefore not popular.

The heart— at last nothing but a muscle moving, not at all the talisman you'd imagined: how if only you could touch it—how everything, everything might yet be different if you did . . .

Poems are not the transcription of experience but the transformation of experience."-Carl Phillips @CPhillipsPoet

Drawings are the product of intense observation, not intellectual interpretation.

In sum, the social imaginary is the way people think about the world, how they imagine it to be, how they act intuitively in relation to it—though that is emphatically not to make the social imaginary simply into a set of identifiable ideas.3 It is the totality of the way we look at our world, to make sense of it and to make sense of our behavior within it.

One glance at a book and you hear the voice of another person, perhaps someone dead for 1,000 years. To read is to voyage through time.

Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were, but without it we go nowhere.

Poetry is the opening and closing of a door, leaving those who look through to guess about what is seen during the moment.

Poetry is a packsack of invisible keepsakes.

The republic is a dreamNothing happens unless first a dream.

Come clean with a child heart Laugh as peaches in the summer wind Let rain on a house roof be a song Let the writing on your face be a smell of apple orchards on late June.

Nothing happens unless first a dream.

Poetry is an echo asking a shadow to dance.

Poetry is the synthesis of hyacinths and biscuits.

Shakespeare, Leonardo da Vinci, Benjamin Franklin and Abraham Lincoln never saw a movie, heard a radio or looked at television. They had 'Loneliness' and knew what to do with it. They were not afraid of being lonely because they knew that was when the creative mood in them would work.

Poetry is the opening and closing of a door, leaving those who look through to guess about what was seen during a moment.

What did they live on," said Alice, who always took a great interest in questions of eating and drinking. "They lived on treacle," said the Dormouse, after thinking a moment or two. "They couldn't have done that, you know," Alice gently remarked. "They'd have been ill." "So they were," said the Dormouse, "very ill." Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland