Quotes About Imagination

Poetry is the breath and finer spirit of all knowledge...

I think poetry should... strike the reader as a wording of his own highest thoughts, and appear almost a remembrance.

The eye is the only note-book of the true poet...

I sew my life together with the glittering threads of poetry.

Words are rather the drossy part of poetry; imagination the life of it.

If you've got a poem within you today, I can guarantee you a tomorrow.

A picture, it is said, is worth a thousand words, but cannot a few well-spoken words convey as many pictures?

As the highly colored birds do not fly around in the dull, leaden plains of a sandy desert, but amid all the settings of nature's leaves and blossoms, and lights and shades—nature's framework of their picture—so there are truths which do not appear well in arid fields of philosophic inquiry, but which demand the colored air and the bowers of poetry to be the setting of their charms.

The most original wits borrow from one another.

Let's have some new clichés!

When television came roaring in after the war they did a little school survey asking children which they preferred and why — television or radio. And there was this 7-year-old boy who said he preferred radio "because the pictures were better."

The contemporary listener new to old time radio is in for a real treat... when played back it begins its magic and the listener becomes absorbed by the program and spellbound by the power of the imagination. For those listeners who have experienced this often enough, it is almost second nature to describe radio as the "theater of the mind."

Radio is the theater of the mind; television is the theater of the mindless.

What skilful limner e'er would choose To paint the rainbow's varying hues, Unless to mortal it were given To dip his brush in dyes of heaven?

Riding on gardenias embracing rainbows...

Book lovers never go to bed alone.

I'm a bad girl — I read past my bedtime.

she has books in her lap and ideas in her head she has colorful dreams when she reads in bed

Bedtime reading is a doorway to dreams.

Books at bedtime, most enchanting Half-asleep, dipping our cozy feet Into fantasy and dreams so sweet.

Reading in bed jumpstarts dreams.

All the mind's activity is easy if it is not subjected to reality.

Imagination is the one weapon in the war against reality.

Be careful not to drown in a mirage.