Quotes About Imagination

What's poetry? It's not real but maybe it's more than real. It's dreaming while you're awake.

For me, drawing is everything, because it informs everything. It even informs my poetry. It's the way I begin everything.

Poetry has no goal other than itself; it can have no other, and no poem will be so great, so noble, so truly worthy of the name of poem, than one written uniquely for the pleasure of writing a poem.

I make no distinction between poetry and painting.

[Photography is] very related to poetry. It's suggestive and fragmentary and unsatisfying in a lot of ways. It's as much about what you leave out as what you put in.

If the imagination is shackled, and nothing is described but what we see, seldom will anything truly great be produced either in Painting or Poetry

It seems just possible that a poem might happen to a very young man: but a poem is not poetry -That is a life.

The wild woman is fluent in the language of dreams, images, passion, and poetry.

Poetry lifts the veil from the hidden beauty of the world, and makes familiar objects be as if they were not familiar.

A vein of poetry exists in the hearts of all men.

Poetry is one of the destinies of speech... One would say that the poetic image, in its newness, opens a future to language.

Poetry reveals that there is no empty space.

Poetry is the breath of beauty.

Poetry is not the record of an event: it is an event.

The best ideas will eat at you for days, maybe even weeks, until something, some incident, some impulse, triggers you to finally express them.

Poetry is the rhythmical creation of beauty in words.

Bad poetry is caused by people who sit down and think, Now I am going to write a Poem.

That is what poetry can do. It speaks to us of what does not exist, which is not only better than what exists, but even more like the truth.

The unconscious mind writes poetry if it's left alone.

A poem is really a kind of machine for producing the poetic state by means of words.

Poetry is the tunnel at the end of the light.

Painting is silent poetry.

Everywhere I go I find that a poet has been there before me.

You must be careful not to deprive the poem of its wild origin.