Quotes About Imagination

Listen, real poetry doesn't say anything; it just ticks off the possibilities. Opens all doors. You can walk through anyone that suits you.

I have never started a poem yet whose end I knew. Writing a poem is discovering.

A poet is a man who manages, in a lifetime of standing out in thunderstorms, to be struck by lightning five or six times.

Poetry is a sort of truancy, a dream within the dream of life, a wild flower planted among our wheat.

What you have to realize when you write poetry, or if you love poetry, is that poetry is just naturally the greatest god damn thing that ever was in the whole universe

I think of poets as outlaw visionaries in a way.

Painting is poetry that is seen rather than felt, and poetry is painting that is felt rather than seen.

Inspiration is needed in geometry, just as much as in poetry.

Real poetry is a party, a wild party, a party where anything might happen. A party from which you may never return home.

Reading poetry is an adventure in renewal, a creative act, a perpetual beginning, a rebirth of wonder.

Poetry is perfect verbs hunting for elusive nouns.

Poetry is priceless.... a way of keeping yourself feeling rich and civilized even when you're quite poor.

There are only three things in the world, one is to read poetry, another is to write poetry, and the best of all is to live poetry.

Once, poets were magicians. Poets were strong, stronger than warriors or kings — stronger than old hapless gods. And they will be strong once again.

For me, poetry is an impish attempt to paint the colour of the wind.

Poetry is innocent, not wise. It does not learn from experience, because each poetic experience is unique.

Poetry is philosophy's sister, the one that wears makeup.

No one is a poet from eight to twelve and from two to six. Whoever is a poet is one always, and continually assaulted by poetry.

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 the poetry.

I always say that photography's closest cousin is poetry because of the way it sparks your imagination and leaves gaps for the viewer to fill in.

There is neither painting, nor sculpture, nor music, nor poetry. The only truth is creation.

I close my eyes to indulge and reminisce of a sunset that never existed.

Painting is so poetic, while sculpture is more logical and scientific and makes you worry about gravity.

The beauty of poetry is that the creation transcends the poet.