Quotes About Imagination

History is still in large measure poetry to me.

Poetry is a string of words that parades without a permit.

Poetry is as vital to thinking as knowledge.

Poetry is the disease of the brain.

Literary poetry in a painter is something special, and is neither illustration nor the translation of writing by form.

Poetry is a kind of ingenious nonsense.

Those blessed structures, plot and rhyme-- why are they no help to me now I want to make something imagined, not recalled?

Poetry is the one thing that isn't contaminated, the one thing that isn't part of the game.

McGough: I'm sorry. I'm afraid I've caught poetry. Mr Bones: Oh really? Well, don't worry, sir - I used to suffer from short stories. McGough: Really? When? Mr Bones: Oh, once upon a time...

She lives the poetry she cannot write.

There's poetry in the world. Poetry doesn't belong just to the poets. You know, you can look at the most premeditated, cold blooded movie and find poetry in it.

If what has happened in the one person were communicated directly to the other, all art would collapse, all the effects of art would disappear.

Experiment is the only means of knowledge at our disposal. Everything else is poetry, imagination.

The young student sits with his head bent over his books, and his mind straying in youth's dreamland; where prose is prowling on the desk and poetry hiding in the heart.

The primary pigment of poetry is the IMAGE.

The great function of poetry is to give back to us the situations of our dreams.

Poetry is the break (or rather the meeting at the breaking point) between the visible and the invisible.

Just now I've taen the fit o' rhyme / My barmie noddle's working prime.

Often it is a moment rather than an event that makes a poem.

The poetry of fashion lies in the creation of illusion

We are never real historians, but always near poets, and our emotion is perhaps nothing but an expression of a poetry that was lost.

It is vain for the sober man to knock at poesy's door.

The courage of the poet is to keep ajar the door that leads into madness.

Poetry is an abstraction bloodied.