Quotes About Imagination

Poetry comes out of life.

Books are meat and medicine and flame and flight and flower steel, stitch, cloud and clout, and drumbeats on the air.

Poetry is life distilled.

Very early in life I became fascinated with the wonders language can achieve. And I began playing with words.

I shall create! If not a note, a hole./If not an overture, a desecration.

Each body has its art...

Creativity, we're told, is not the finding of a thing, but the making something out of it after it is found.

la realidad, desde luego, es muy superior a la ficción, aunque no sea sino por su imaginación desbordada.

El más sencillo argumento de la realidad es inalcanzable para el ficcionador más delirante.

I Drink. I Burn. I Dream. And Sometimes, I tell Stories !

Everyone knows that a place exists which is not economically or politically indebted to all the vileness and compromise. That is not obliged to reproduce the system. That is writing. If there is a somewhere else that can escape the infernal repetition, it lies in that direction, where it writes itself, where it dreams, where it invents new worlds.

We then spend our lives not seeing what we saw . The picture is there: what we know when we're small; when we are small, we know everything in a childlike way.

Women's imaginary is inexhaustible, like music, painting, writing: their stream of phantasms is incredible.

The new history is coming; it's not a dream, though it do beyond men's imagination, and for good reason. It's going them of their conceptual orthopedics, beginning with the de their enticement machine.

I had a lot of other ideas, now and then, but every time I took a second look at one, it got sick and died.

If you don't like the facts, you ignore them, and if you need facts, dream up some you do like

Keep your dreams more exciting than your memories. When your memories are more exciting than your dreams, you've begun to die.

Dreaming is an act of pure imagination, attesting in all men a creative power, which if it were available in waking, would make every man a Dante or Shakespeare.

Night, the mother of fear and mystery, was coming upon me.

The professional military mind is by necessity an inferior and unimaginative mind; no man of high intellectual quality would willingly imprison his gifts in such a calling.

I must confess that my imagination refuses to see any sort of submarine doing anything but suffocating its crew and floundering at sea.

When starting out, don't worry about not having enough money. Limited funds are a blessing, not a curse. Nothing encourages creative thinking in quite the same way.

Clearly—or almost clearly—the brain does not own any direct copies of stuff in the world. There is no library of forms and ideas against which to compare the images of perception. Information is stored in a plastic way, allowing fantastic juxtapositions and leaps of imagination. Some chaos exists out there, and the brain seems to have more flexibility than classical physics in finding the order in it.

He suspected that when Feynman wanted to know what an electron would do under given circumstances he merely asked himself, "If I were an electron, what would I do?