Quotes About Imagination

The highest exercise of imagination is not to devise what has no existence, but rather to perceive what really exists, though unseen by the outward eye--not creation, but insight.

Es celos lo que imagino, que no es celos lo que sé: cosa que pienso que fue y que en mi daño adivino.

Creer que el cielo en un infierno cabe

I like to maintain a certain sense of fantasy in my life. I am kind of like that at home. Do I have the full hair and makeup? No. But I might have the nice dress on.

Just as the light and weightless vegetation of saltpeter floats over the old walls of houses as soon as the owner gets careless, so the literary vocation springs up in you.

For I dipt into the future, as far as human eye can see, saw the vision of the world, and the wonder that would be.

Sense sends to Imagination before Reason have judged, & Reason sends over to Imagination before decree can be acted.

The power of Thought,--the magic of the Mind!

Poetry is the lava of the imagination whose eruption prevents an earthquake.

We of the craft (poets) are all crazy.

The power of thought is the magic of the mind.

It is the lava of the imagination whose eruption prevents an earth-quake-they say Poets never or rarely go mad...but are generally so near it-that I cannot help thinking rhyme is so far useful in anticipating & preventing the disorder.

Tis to create, and in creating live a being more intense, that we endow with form our fancy, gaining as we give the life we image, even as I do now.

Not in those climes where I have late been straying, Though Beauty long hath there been matchless deemed, Not in those visions to the heart displaying Forms which it sighs but to have only dreamed, Hath aught like thee in truth or fancy seemed: Nor, having seen thee, shall I vainly seek To paint those charms which varied as they beamed— To such as see thee not my words were weak; To those who gaze on thee, what language could they speak?

A drop of ink can make a million think.

Such writing is a sort of mental masturbation - [Keats] is always frigging his imagination. - I don't mean that he is indecent but viciously soliciting his own ideas into a state which is neither poetry nor any thing else but a Bedlam of vision produced by raw pork and opium.

To have frequent recourse to narrative betrays great want of imagination.

In seeking wisdom thou art wise; in imagining thou hast attained it - thou art a fool.

Come with me, ladies and gentlemen who are in any wise weary of London: come with me: and those that tire at all of the world we know: for we have new worlds here.

Then I perceived, what I had never thought, that all these staring houses were not alike, but different one from another, because they held different dreams.

I have lived to see that being seventeen is no protection against becoming seventy, but to know this needs the experience of a lifetime, for no imagination copes with it.

Bricks without straw are more easily made than imagination without memories.

It's better to read first rate science fiction than second rate science -- it's a lot more fun, and no more likely to be wrong," joked Lord Rees, Astronomer Royal and the former president of the Royal Society, at Wired 2013.

I am climbing to the top Of the tallest darkest tree I need to know Where heaven stops What lies Beyond the dream