Quotes About Imagination

The poet is just like the fabled hunter who naps beside a tree, waiting for hares to break their skulls by running headlong into the tree trunk. After waiting for a long time, the poet discovers that he is the hare.

Write a book, not the book.

You must make a clear distinction between your creative mode and your critical mode. The two are like water and oil, they do not mix.

The domain of the imagination is reality.

Shall we the shipwrecked drown and dream A further voyage to farther stars

My dreaming thoughts go barefoot in the evening.

Je buvais à pleins verres les étoiles

Avant tout les artistes sont des hommes qui veulent devenir inhu­mains. Ils cherchent péniblement les traces de l'inhu­manité, traces que l'on ne rencontre nulle part dans la nature.

MANY men say that in our dreams There are but lies and idle themes; And yet a man can dream such dreams As are not lies, rather, it seems, Their meaning, later, becomes clear. We may invoke as witness here

Books tell us stories, they allow us to vicariously live out snippets of other lives, but they cannot take you in their arms and comfort you when you're scared.

Les livres ont une singularité qui confine à la magie : ils sont un passeport pour l'ailleurs, une grande évasion. Ils peuvent servir de viatique pour affronter les épreuves de la vie.

Les livres ont une singularité qui confine à la magie : ils sont un passeport pour l'ailleurs, une grande évasion.

Câu chuy?n v? ngh? thu?t chính là câu chuy?n v? s? b?t tuân th?.

Samo roman na najbolji na?in može da pokaže koliko je stvarnost slaba i nedovoljna da zadovolji ?ovekove apetite, ostvari njegove želje i snove. ~ Mario Vargas Ljosa ~

En prétendant raconter la vie dans vos romans, vous mentez. La vie est trop complexe pour être mise équation ou pour se laisser enfermer dans les pages d'un livre. Elle est plus forte que les maths ou que la fiction. Le roman, c'est de la fiction. Et la fiction, c'est techniquement du mensonge.

It does not always work, but sometimes, for a few hours, fiction is genuinely more powerful than life.

No había duda de por qué Breton había dicho que México era el país más surrealista

Es triste que nuestro cerebro no sea capaz de almacenar los recuerdos de cada segundo de nuestra vida. En la memoria solo queda pedacería. Además, la percepción nos juega trucos. Superponemos hechos reales con imaginarios y lo que dábamos como sucedido no es más que una invención. El recuerdo de nuestro pasado queda a mitad de camino entre lo ficticio y lo verídico

en el arte se hace lo que se puede, no lo que se quiere».

If you look closely, there is no book more visual than Three Trapped Tigers, in that it is filled with blank pages, dark pages, it has stars made of words, the famous magical cube made of numbers, and there is even a page which is a mirror.

If the sleep of reason produces monsters, what does the sleep of unreason produce?

to all the monsters in my nursery: May you never leave me alone.

Well, the first thing is that I love monsters, I identify with monsters.

It's important for little girls to know not every story has to be a love story and for boys to know that soldiers aren't the only ones to triumph in war.