Quotes About Imagination

The death of childhood is the beginning of poetry.

Children can write poetry and then, unless they're poets, they stop when reach puberty.

Poetry is not a turning loose of emotion, but an escape from emotion.

In verse one can take any damn constant one likes, one can alliterate, or assone, or rhyme, or quant, or smack, only one MUST leave the other elements irregular.

The wheat field has ...poetry; it is like a memory of something one has once seen. We can only make our pictures speak.

Poetry is not an assertion of truth, but the making of that truth more fully real to us.

We are surrounded by poetry on all sides.

Poetry is what happens when nothing else can.

To be a poet is a condition, not a profession.

Writing poetry is the hard manual labor of the imagination.

Personality is everything in art and poetry.

Each of us has his own alphabet with which to create poetry.

Prose is walking; poetry is flying

The poet makes silk dresses out of worms.

Poetry is the apotheosis of sentiment.

Poetry is not a code to be broken but a way of seeing with the eyes shut.

As music is the poetry of sound, so is painting the poetry of sight and the subject-matter has nothing to do with harmony of sound or of color.

Poetry is any page from a sketchbook of outlines of a doorknob with thumb-prints of dust, blood, dreams.

If there were no poetry on any day in the world, poetry would be invented that day. For there would be an intolerable hunger.

Why are there trees I never walk under but large and melodious thoughts descend upon me?

Novels are about other people and poems are about yourself.

I feel that anything is possible in a poem.

The poet speaks adequately only when he speaks somewhat wildly... not with intellect alone, but with intellect inebriated by nectar.

What can be explained is not poetry.