Quotes About Imagination

It's not the word made flesh we want in writing, in poetry and fiction, but the flesh made word

The greatest ideas, the most profound thoughts, and the most beautiful poetry are born from the womb of silence

A poet is a man who puts up a ladder to a star and climbs it while playing a violin.

And here in my isolation I can grow stronger. Poetry seems to come of itself, without effort, and I need only let myself dream a little while painting to suggest it.

Poetry often enters through the window of irrelevance.

If you choose your subject selectively - intuitively - the camera can write poetry.

I really think that everyone should have watercolors, magnetic poetry, and a harmonica.

Babies are not brought by storks and poets are not produced by workshops.

Poets are mysterious, but a poet when all is said is not much more mysterious than a banker.

The purpose of poetry is to restore to mankind the possibility to wonder.

If you want a definition of poetry, say: Poetry is what makes me laugh or cry or yawn, what makes my toenails twinkle, what makes me want to do this or that or nothing and let it go at that.

Poetry is the shadow cast by our streetlight imaginations.

A poem is like a radio that can broadcast continuously for thousands of years.

Each man carries within him the soul of a poet who died young.

As for the usefulness of poetry, its uses are many. It is the deification of reality.

. . . All artists' work is autobiographical. Any writer's work is a map of their psyche. You can really see what their concerns are, what their obsessions are, and what interests them.

You will find poetry nowhere unless you bring some of it with you.

The poet is a liar who always speaks the truth.

Poetry is a natural energy resource of our country.

Poetry is something in-between the dream and its interpretation.

If your vision of the world is of a certain kind you will put poetry in everything, necessarily.

Poetry is a fireplace in summer or a fan in winter.

To see the Summer Sky Is Poetry, though never in a Book it lie— True Poems flee—

Poetry is the fiery index to the genius of the age.