Quotes About Imagination

Metaphor is thus imaginative rationality.

New metaphors are capable of creating new understandings and, therefore, new realities. This should be obvious in the case of poetic metaphor, where language is the medium through which new conceptual metaphors are created.

Aristotle, on the other hand, saw poetry as having a positive value: "It is a great thing, indeed, to make proper use of the poetic forms, . . . But the greatest thing by far is to be a master of metaphor" (Poetics 1459a); "ordinary words convey only what we know already; it is from metaphor that we can best get hold of something fresh" (Rhetoric 1410b).

Intentionality. To cultivate a positive attitude is to take a large step on the path of mastery in relationships. In addition, mental toughness (the ability to focus on a problem or a long-term goal) combined with openness and imagination (the ability to see options and visualize desired states) can be applied to relationships as well as to sports, or anything else.

Creativity can solve almost any problem. The creative act, the defeat of habit by orginality, overcomes everything.

Creativity can solve almost any problem. The creative act, the defeat of habit by originality, overcomes everything.

The secret to film is that it's an illusion.

George Lucas

Learning to make films is very easy. Learning what to make films about is very hard.

A special effect is a tool, a means of telling a story. A special effect without a story is a pretty boring thing.

Dreams are extremely important. You can't do it unless you imagine it.

A special effect without a story is a pretty boring thing.

Yet it would be a failure of imagination if we were to start out-as today's histories sometimes do-by simply judging people of the past for having outlooks that are not like our own. Rather, we must first try to enter sympathetically into an earlier world and to understand its people. Once we do that we will be in a far better position both to learn from them and to evaluate their outlooks critically.

The imagination is not an escape, but a return to the richness of our true selves; a return to reality.

The most dire disaster in love is the death of imagination.

In order to understand what another person is saying, you must assume it is true and try to imagine what it might be true of.

I thought of the places I would be leaving, of what they were and what they could become. I pictured trees returning to the bare slopes, fish and whales returning to the bay. I thought of what my children and grandchildren might find here, and of how those who worked the land and sea might prosper if this wild vision were to be realized.

The Kraken sleepeth: faintest sunlights flee About his shadowy sides; above him swell Huge sponges of millennial growth and height; And far away into the sickly light, From many a wondrous grot and secret cell Unnumbered and enormous polypi Winnow with giant arms the slumbering green. Alfred Lord Tennyson

Reality can destroy the dream; why shouldn't the dream destroy reality?

I've often entertained paranoid suspicions about my fridge and what it's been doing to my poetry when I'm not looking, but I never even considered that my fan was thinking about me.

Then I discovered I loved writing poetry more than fiction.

I should write a book. I've always wanted to write a book. I should write a book about kids who see dead people.

You've got to dream a little bit if you're going to get somewhere.

A man who reads lives a thousands lives. A man who doesn't read live one life.