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Quotes About Imagination

Dress the pussy for her nighty and follow her piggytails up their way to Winkyland.
~ James Joyce
Dac? cineva-È™i închipuie c? nu sunt divin Nu-i mai dau de b?ut când mai fac vin, Ap? s? bea, dar s? È™tie c? nu-i ap? chioar?, Ci-i apa pe care o fac eu când d? vinul din mine afar?.
~ James Joyce
He addle liddle phifie Annie ugged the little craythur.
~ James Joyce
Poetry, even when apparently most fantastic, is always a revolt against artifice, a revolt, in a sense, against actuality.
~ James Joyce
and even I, looking at the high masts, saw, or imagined, the geography which had been scantily dosed to me at school gradually taking substance under my eyes.
~ James Joyce
Saas and taas and specis bizaas.
~ James Joyce
Poppypap's a passport out
~ James Joyce
Ecco che ponderava su cose che non sono state: cos'avrebbe fatto Cesare se fosse sopravvissuto per aver creduto alla veggente; cosa sarebbe potuto essere, le possibilità del possibile in quanto possibile...
~ James Joyce
We are right, he said, and the others are wrong. To speak of these things and to try to understand their nature and, having understood it, to try slowly and humbly and constantly to express, to press out again, from the gross earth or what it brings forth, from sound and shape and colour which are the prison gates of our soul, an image of the beauty we have come to understand- that is art.
~ James Joyce
With: Go Ferchios off to Allad out of this! An oldsteinsong. He threwed his fit up to his aers, rolled his poligone eyes, snivelled from his snose and blew the guff out of his hornypipe.
~ James Joyce
he wanted to meet in the real world the unsubstantial image which his soul so constantly beheld
~ James Joyce
He is a bold man who, in his writing, dares to alter---even further to distort---what he has seen and heard.
~ James Joyce
drew the blankets over my head and tried to think of Christmas.
~ James Joyce
He had tales of distant countries.
~ James Joyce
maestro di color che sanno.
~ James Joyce
I am the boy that can enjoy invisibility
~ James Joyce
Her image accompanied me even in places the most hostile to romance.
~ James Joyce
Llegan, las olas. Los hipocampos crestiblancos, tascando, embridados en fúlgidos céfiros, los corceles de Mananaan.
~ James Joyce
Our wholemole millwheeling vicociclometer, a tetradoma-tional gazebocroticon (the "Mamma Lujah" known to every schoolboy scandaller, be he Matty, Marky, Lukey or John-a-Donk)
~ James Joyce
often she wondered why you couldn't eat something poetical like violets or roses
~ James Joyce
Don't know what poetry is even. Must be in a certain mood.
~ James Joyce
In the intense instant of imagination, when the mind, Shelley says, is a fading coal that which I was is that which I am and that which in possibility I may come to be. So in the future, the sister of the past, I may see [187] myself as I sit here now but by reflection from that which then I shall be.
~ James Joyce
The object of the artist is the creation of the beautiful. What beautiful is is another question
~ James Joyce
Creativity implies deviance from past procedure. Habits are consistent with it. Habits often destroy creative ideas before they see the light of day. Habits include conceptual blocks, which not only occur because of the mechanisms of our limited brains but also are imparted by socialization, education, and professional specialization. Creativity requires System 2 thinking and more work for your mind.
~ James L. Adams