Quotes About Imagination

and I've heard that they walk among the stars.

So many things are possible just as long as you know they aren't impossible.

For instance, if something is there, you can only see it with your eyes open, but if it isn't there, you can see it just as well with your eyes closed. That's why imaginary things are often easier to see than real ones.

We're not interested in making sense; it's not our job.

as you've discovered, so many things are possible just as long as you don't know they're impossible.

What a strange thing to have happen," he thought (just as you must be thinking right now). "This game is much more serious than I thought, for here I am riding on a road I've never seen, going to a place I've never heard of, and all because of a tollbooth which came from nowhere. I'm certainly glad that it's a nice day for a trip," he concluded hopefully, for, at the moment, this was the one thing he definitely knew.

the front seat with his alarm again ringing furiously. "Are you all right?" shouted Milo. "Umphh," grunted Tock. "Sorry to get carried away, but I think you get the point." As they drove along, Tock continued to explain the importance of time, quoting the old philosophers and poets and illustrating each point with gestures that brought him perilously close to tumbling headlong from the speeding automobile.

For instance, have you ever heard a square-wheeled steam roller ride over a street full of hard-boiled eggs he asked, and as he did, all that could be heard were loud crunching sounds.

The Castle in the Air is far from here, and the one stairway which leads to it is guarded by fierce and black-hearted demons.

And Milo, full of thoughts and questions, curled up on the pages of tomorrow's music and eagerly awaited the dawn.

so many things are possible just as long as you don't know they're impossible.

So many things are potable just as long as you don't know they're impossible.

Oh, I know what to do when I see victuals coming toward me in little old Bagdad-on-the-Subway. I strike the asphalt three times with my forehead and get ready to spiel yarns for my supper.

action of the brain. It seemed easy to me. I never once mistook his finger for the bay. I'll bet that if he had used the phrases: Gaze, as it were, unpreoccupied, outward—or rather laterally—in the direction of the horizon, underlaid, so to speak, with the adjacent fluid inlet, and Now, returning—or rather, in a manner, withdrawing your attention, bestow it upon my upraised digit—I'll bet, I say, that Henry James himself could have passed the examination.

He had been always about to paint a masterpiece, but had never yet begun it.

Whether out of inertia or selfishness, whether out of fear or a simple lack of moral imagination, we so often spend our lives as if in a fog, accepting injustice, rationalizing inequity, tolerating the intolerable

Eroticism is] the poetry of the body, the testimony of the senses. Like a poem, it is not linear, it meanders and twists back on itself, shows us what we do not see with our eyes, but in the eyes of our spirit. Eroticism reveals to us another world, inside this world. The senses become servants of the imagination, and let us see the invisible and hear the inaudible.

La lectura es libertad y el lector, al leer, reinventa aquello mismo que lee; participa así en la creación universal.

How to speak, oh Dream, your silence out loud?

The unreality of the watched makes the watching real.

La poesía mueve al poeta como el viento a las nubes quietas: siempre más allá, hacia lo desconocido.

In my window night invents another night

Poetry, like history, is made; poetry, like truth, is seen.

Los ojos del entendimiento comulgan con la hermosura y el hombre procrea no imágenes ni simulacros de belleza si no realidades hermosas.