Quotes About Imagination

Whatever inspiration is, it's born from a continuous I don't know....That is why I value that little phrase I don't know so highly. It's small, but it flies on mighty wings. It expands our lives to include spaces within us as well as the outer expanses in which our tiny Earth hangs suspended...Poets, if they're genuine, must always keep repeating I don't know.

When they said he didn't exist, he couldn't die of grief, so he had to be born. He's already out there living somewhere; he blinks his little eyes and grows.

Leggere libri è il gioco più bello che l'umanità abbia inventato.

In prose... at any moment the door will open, someone will enter, something will happen. In poetry, the description itself must happen.

Wczoraj, kiedy Twoje imiÄ™ ktoÅ› wymówiÅ' przy mnie gÅ'oÅ›no, to poczuÅ'am jakby ró?a przez otwarte wpadÅ'a okno.

Poetry (whatever we may say) is, was, and will always be a game. And as very child knows, all games have rules. So why do grown-ups forget?

Even boredom must be described with passion.

Such stories may predominate in daily life, but when literature starts taking cues from statistics, it seals its own fate.

?ycie pisze najbardziej oryginalne, najbardziej komiczne a jednocze?nie najbardziej dramatyczne scenariusze.

Quatro bilhões de pessoas nesta terra, e minha imaginação é como era. Não se dá bem com grandes números.

the unthinkable / is thinkable.

Lying in wait, set to pounce on the blank page, are letters up to no good, clutches of clauses so subordinate they'll never let her get away. From, The Joy of Writing, Wislawa Szymborska

Pierwsza moja Wizyta u Witkacego: dzwoni?, otwieraj? si? drzwi, w ciemnym przedpokoju potworny karze? ro?nie - to Witkacy otworzy? drzwi w kucki i z wolna si? podnosi?...

The eyes of boredom, old buddy, are bigger than those of fear! When you're bored, God only knows what you might imagine!

Ã…Å¡niadanie w Hermitage z przypadkowo poznanym A. i jego ?onÄ…. Jedzenie zalatuje - proszÄ™ wybaczy? - bardzo luksusowym klozetem, wÅ'aÅ›ciwie nie wiem dlaczego ale, kiedy zawisÅ'em na krawÄ™dzi tych apetycznych frykasów, w gÄ™stej dystynkcji kelnerów, byÅ'bym przysiÄ…gÅ', ?e to klozet. ZresztÄ… spa? mi siÄ™ chciaÅ'o. Mo?e dlatego.

More wisdom is contained in the best crime fiction than in philosophy.

Es ist nicht wahr, dass die Nacht alles grau macht. Es ist ein unbeschreibliches, unnachahmliches Blaugrau – das Grau für die Katzen und das Blau für die Frauen –, das die Nacht so schwer und so süß ausatmet und das so berauscht, wenn es uns zwischen halb zehn Uhr abends und Viertel nach vier morgens anweht.

What if nothing exists and we're all in somebody's dream?

In my next life I want to live backwards. Start out dead and finish off as an orgasm.

It's a wonderful thing to be able to create your own world whenever you want to.

She wore a short skirt and a tight sweater and her figure described a set of parabolas that could cause cardiac arrest in a yak.

What if nothing exists and we're all in somebody's dream? Or what's worse, what if only that fat guy in the third row exists?

I just met a wonderful new man, he is fictional but you can't have everything

In order to be a writer, Maugham continues: one must take chances and not be afraid to look foolish. I wrote The Razor's Edge while wearing a paper hat….