Quotes About Imagination

BABYLON — where I go dreaming When I weary of to-day, Weary of a world grown grey.

Two most important things in a writer's wallet: library card and poetic license.

Painters and poets have liberty to lie.

The crown of literature is poetry. It is its end and aim. It is the sublimest activity of the human mind. It is the achievement of beauty. The writer of prose can only step aside when the poet passes...

What a lumbering poor vehicle prose is for the conveying of a great thought!... Prose wanders around with a lantern & laboriously schedules & verifies the details & particulars of a valley & its frame of crags & peaks, then Poetry comes, & lays bare the whole landscape with a single splendid flash.

The courage of the poet is to keep ajar the door that leads to madness. The poet is the Pandora of the mind.

...lyrical poems, deriving from everywhere and nowhere as is the case with all poetry...

The true poem is the poet's mind; the true ship is the ship-builder.

Poetry treks through our souls and tells us in rhyme of the adventure.

A poet is inmate, and warden, to his own mind.

And the poet out-argues Nature.

A poem is a carefully gathered bucket of stars.

A poet builds his nest in the springtime tree of wild reverie, and ends up staying the year.

There is no vagrant notion in your nature that poetry does not encourage.

By poetry we mean the art of employing words in such a manner as to produce an illusion on the imagination, the art of doing by means of words what the painter does by means of colours.

A poet swallows life and exhales painted words.

A poet rarely swashes ink but mostly mists at subtleties.

Poetry is the tracing of the trajectories of a finite sound to the infinite points of its echoes.

Poetry is an echo asking a shadow dancer to be a partner.

Poetry is the art of substantiating shadows, and of lending existence to nothing.

Poetry staggers amongst stars, drunk on the night.

Everything one invents is true, you may be perfectly sure of that. Poetry is as precise as geometry.

Modern poets mix much water with their ink.

Poetry is the art of uniting pleasure with truth, by calling imagination to the help of reason.