Quotes About Imagination

A lady, with whom I was riding in the forest, said to me, that the woods always seemed to her to wait, as if the genii who inhabit them suspended their deeds until the wayfarer has passed onward: a thought which poetry has celebrated in the dance of the fairies, which breaks off on the approach of human feet.

A rustle in the wind reminds us a fairy is near.

Fairies glitter our hearts with giggles.

Nobody is too old for fairy tales.

Don't ask questions of fairy tales.

Now and again some anxious, troubled soul fears that fairy tales will harm the children. Children need fairy tales because they are the purest product of the highest kind of imagination. The lovely thing about them is exactly that they are so far removed from the actual world and so close to that better, fairer one where children dwell.

Faith is nothing but spiritualized imagination.

Fear makes the wolf bigger than he is.

When the Sun sets, shadows, that shew'd at Noon But small, appear most long and terrible; So, when we think Fate hovers o'er our Heads, Our apprehensions shoot beyond all bounds, Owls, Ravens, Crickets seem the watch of death, Nature's worst Vermine scare her God-like Sons. Ecchoes the very leavings of a Voice, Grow babling Ghosts, and call us to our Graves: Each Mole-hill thought swells to a huge Olympus, While we fantastick Dreamers heave and puff, And sweat with an Imagination's weight...

Put cream and sugar on a fly, and it tastes very much like a black raspberry.

The ships hung in the sky in much the same way that bricks don't.

If Monday is a mosquito and Wednesday is a camel, then Friday is a unicorn!

Every artist's illimitable country is himself.

A person terrified with the imagination of spectres, is more reasonable than one who thinks the appearance of spirits fabulous and groundless.

Nature is a Haunted House – but Art – a House that tries to be haunted.

All men dream: but not equally. Those who dream by night in the dusty recesses of their minds wake in the day to find that it was vanity: but the dreamers of the day are dangerous men, for they may act their dream with open eyes, to make it possible.

Dreams are as powerful as swords.

Some people breathe through their mouth, some breathe through their nose — I breathe through the pages of a book.

An historian is an unsuccessful novelist.

Hope is the silver lining of dreams.

...the fairy dust of poetry and glittery hope of dreams...

We were not many, and the world was very small. There were strange lands to the east- islands like Akutan; so we thought all the world was islands, and did not mind.

Then he dozed off to sleep and to dream dreams that for madness and audacity rivaled those of poppy-eaters.

Sensation invested itself in form and color and radiance, and what his imagination dared, it objectified in some sublimated and magic way. Past, present, and future mingled; and he went on oscillating across the broad, warm world, through