Quotes About Imagination

ALATE POSTULATEWhen angels were invented, flight required wings

The art of writing is the manipulation of words to ease the mind and free the imagination

For the writer, the process of writing a novel is like getting an advanced copy of a book you'd really like to read.

Poetry, Painting & Music, the three Powers in man of conversing with Paradise, which the flood did not sweep away.

Only in dreams, in poetry, in play do we sometimes arrive at what we were before we were this thing that, who knows, we are.

I am no poet, but if you think for yourselves, as I proceed, the facts will form a poem in your minds.

To most people who look at a mobile, it's no more than a series of flat objects that move. To a few, though, it may be poetry.

The fact is that poetry is not the books in the library . . . Poetry is the encounter of the reader with the book, the discovery of the book.

Don't fall asleep yet. Contrary to popular belief, that's not where dreams get accomplished.

Poetry is the synthesis of hyacinths and biscuits.

People who look for symbolic meaning fail to grasp the inherent poetry and mystery of the images.

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

Poetry uses the hub of a torque converter for a jello mold.

Poetry is a packsack of invisible keepsakes.

The best craftsmanship always leaves holes and gaps... so that something that is not in the poem can creep, crawl, flash or thunder in.

They swayed about upon a rocking horse, And thought it Pegasus.

We fit the universe through our brains and it comes out in the form of nothing less than poetry. We have a responsibility to awe.

For poetry there exists neither large countries nor small. Its domain is in the heart of all men.

Look around—there's only one thing of danger for you here—poetry.

To read a poem is to hear it with our eyes; to hear it is to see it with our ears.

I've got magic. I've got poetry at my fingertips.

Always be a poet, even in prose.

If you know what you are going to write when you're writing a poem, it's going to be average.

The writing of a poem is like a child throwing stones into a mineshaft. You compose first, then you listen for the reverberation.