Quotes About Imagination

The poet existed among the cave men; he will exist among men of the atomic age, for he is an inherent part of man. Even religions have been born from the need for poetry, which is a spiritual need, and it is through the grace of poetry that the divine spark lives forever in the human flint.

My dad was a poet. He saw the world through unique glasses, with simplicity, spirituality, and humor.

I think every little girl is fascinated with mermaids whether you are familiar with 'Splash' or 'Little Mermaid' or things like that. I did remember the film but I didn't watch it going into 'Aquamarine.'

My mum was a children's librarian, so I spent a lot of time in the library. My reading life, because of my mum's work, was evenly split between American, Canadian, Australian and British authors.

My parents split up, and a lot of things going on in the outside world made me want to immerse myself in an alternative world.

But as my voice coach keeps saying, if we actually spoke the way they imagine the Elizabethan voice might have been, we wouldn't be able to understand it.

Keats himself spoke about how Shakespeare was capable of erasing himself completely from the characters he had created. As an actor, that is what I'm trying to do.

Of the authors published under Ballantine's Adult Fantasy logo, only Evangeline Walton 'spoke' to me.

'The Muppet Show' spoke to me at 5, and it speaks to me in my late 30s in the same way.

When I was little, my mum would take me to see the orchestra, tell me to close my eyes and think about the story the music was telling. I always spoke about colours. I'd talk about how purple the oboe was.

I think my first girlfriend and I hardly spoke to each other in the year we were going out. In fact we never even spoke to each other to formally break it off. For all I know she still thinks we're together. Maybe in a parallel universe we're very happy.

The pictures are created by the listener, with a little help from the broadcaster. The pictures are perfect. If you're showing pictures, different things in that picture can distract from the spoken word.

I always liked making things, and then I fell into animation. And then luck comes into it as well.

I want to do some fiction writing, I've had some pretty good luck with short stories, I'd like to do a couple of larger things.

A short story is a love affair, a novel is a marriage. A short story is a photograph; a novel is a film.

It is the marriage of the soul with nature that makes the intellect fruitful, and gives birth to imagination

And habits are hell's own substitute for good intentions. Habits are the ruin of ambition, of initiative , of imagination. They're the curse of marriage and the after-bane of death.

Creativity is the marriage humanity makes with eternity.

The happiest marriages are full of alternative lives, lived in the head, unknown to the partner.

One's fantasy goes for a walk and returns with a bride.

Centuries ago, human beings created marriage. Later, they looked to the sky and dreamt of traveling to the moon. Coincidence?

I have written two medical novels. I have never studied medicine, never seen an operation

Books are keys that open many doors.

Everything that man can imagine, he is capable of creating.