Quotes About Imagination

I prefer the skyline of a shelf of books.

I bought a ticket with the last of my money at the bus station, telling the agent that there certainly seemed to be a long, long road winding to the land of my dreams.

Work could be anything that aroused your curiosity: the natural world, music, anthropology, the stars, or even sewing or gardening. When we were little girls we would invent dresses the Queen of Egypt might wear, or have a special garden where we ordered seeds for vegetables or flowers we had never heard of.

I saw a doe and a fawn but Sonia chased them away, roaring as if they meant us harm. I rehearsed my entire life and I heard my heart for the first time. In the morning I had fantasies of love and laughter, even creating the image of Duane and my father riding horseback up the drawn toward me.

Elaborate is the courtliness of the imagination, on one sore knee before beauty.

The beauty of nature has been one of the great inspirations in my life.

The most sophisticated people I know--inside they're all children. We never really loose a certain sense we had when we were kids.

Cara: *Flies* Gen: What? I don't have wings! Cara: Ofcourse not! You're a boy.

Someday we'll find it the rainbow connection, the lovers, the dreamers and me

We could have touched the stars. Instead, you brought them to us. We didn't have to seek the heavens when we had you here with us now.

Creativity. Taking something enormously strange and somehow making it strangely familiar.

Without an external source for theological truth, there is no limit on where your imagination will take you.

When Rachel Carson accepted the National Book Award, she said, 'if there is poetry in my book about the sea it is not because I deliberately put it there but because no one could write truthfully about the sea and leave out poetry.

I pointed out how the eel grass lay flat on the beach, and asked them to imagine what it must be like to live in a forest that worked like a folding stage prop, going from three-dimensional to two-dimensional twice a day.

I can make the earth stop in its tracks. I made the blue cars go away. I can make myself invisible or small. I can become gigantic & reach the farthest things. I can change the course of nature. I can place myself anywhere in space or time. I can summon the dead. I can perceive events on other worlds, in my deepest inner mind, & in the minds of others. I can I am

If my poetry aims to achieve anything, it's to deliver people from the limited ways in which they see and feel.

It is wrong to assume that art needs the spectator in order to be. The film runs on without any eyes. The spectator cannot exist without it. It insures his existence.

Dreams are at once fruit and outcry against an atrophy of the senses..

Let's just say I was testing the bounds of reality.

Films are collections of dead pictures which are given artificial insemination.

Dreams are the wind of the mind.

Sector 7 by David Wiesner (Clarion, 1997)

Well, she's walking through the clouds, with a circus mind that's running wild.

So down and down and down and down And down and down we go Hurry my darling we mustn't be late For the show Neptune champion games to an aqua World so very dear Right this way smiles a mermaid I can hear Atlantis full of cheer.