Quotes About Imagination

A way of using words to say things which could not possibly be said in any other way, things which in a sense do not exist till they are born … in poetry.

Freud thought that a psychosis was a waking dream, and that poets were daydreamers too, but I wonder if the reverse is not as often true, and that madness is a fiction lived in like a rented house

There has never been a great poet who wasn't also a great reader of poetry.

Poetry is the art which is technically within the grasp of everyone: a piece of paper and a pencil and one is ready.

However, poetry does not live solely in books or in school anthologies.

Poetry is not only a set of words which are chosen to relate to each other; it is something which goes much further than that to provide a glimpse of our vision of the world.

We all write poems; it is simply that poets are the ones who write in words.

for what is the gift of the poet and the artist except to see the sights which others cannot see and to hear the sounds that others cannot hear?

Poetry, I have discovered, is always unexpected and always as faithful and honest as dreams.

But it isn't easy,' said Pooh. 'Because Poetry and Hums aren't things which you get, they're things which get you. And all you can do is to go where they can find you.

Poetry has no investment in anything besides openness. It's not arguing a point. It's creating an environment.

Every healthy man can do without food for two days — but without poetry, never!

We like to think we live in daylight, but half the world is always dark, and fantasy, like poetry, speaks the language of the night.

Poetry is what makes the invisible appear.

Whatever the imagination seizes as Beauty must be truth -whether it existed before or not

The poet doesn't invent. He listens.

A writer is not so much someone who has something to say as he is someone who has found a process that will bring about new things he would not have thought of if he had not started to say them.

In perhaps 50 years, 60 years, we can finish completely this civilization, and offer to our children the possibility to invent a new story, a new poetry, a new romanticism.

In most men there exists a poet who died young, whom the man survived.

I began to write poetry when I was about four years old. In other words, I've always been writing poetry.

. . . it is through poetry that we give name to those ideas which are-until the poem-nameless and formless, about to be birthed, but already felt.

The central fact of my life has been the existence of words and the possibility of weaving those words into poetry.

poetry is the breath and finer spirit of knowledge

I like what Wallace Stevens said: "Poetry must almost successfully resist intelligence." I just change the word "poetry" to "my photographs".