Quotes About Imagination

Photography is an austere and blazing poetry of the real.

Here is our poetry, for we have pulled down the stars to our will.

Poetry is a kind of magic that very few can create and even fewer can truly understand and appreciate in all its glory.

Poetry should be great and unobtrusive, a thing which enters into one's soul, and does not startle it or amaze it with itself, but with its subject.

Writing free verse is like playing tennis with the net down.

[Fiction and poetry] are medicines, they're doses, and they heal the rupture that reality makes on the imagination.

A truly poetic canvas is an awakened dream.

I think poetry can help children deal with the other subjects on the curriculum by enabling them to see a subject in a new way.

Poetry does not consist of words alone; there must be sentiment and fancy, combination and arrangement.

I find I cannot exist without Poetry

A merely great intellect can produce prose, but not poetry, not one line.

You can't write poetry on the computer.

The essence of poetry is invention; such invention as, by producing something unexpected, surprises and delights.

The truest poetry is the most feigning.

By poetry we mean the art of employing of words in such a manner as to produce an illusion on the imagination; the art of doing by means of words, what the painter does by means of colors.

Those who are not very concerned with art want poems or pictures to record for them something they already know - as one might want a picture of a place he loves.

Perhaps no person can be a poet, or can even enjoy poetry, without a certain unsoundness of mind.

Poetry must speak of others, in order to speak for the poet's imagination, in order to speak of itself; it is slowed down by poetics after its flight is over.

The Canadian people are more practical than imaginative. Romantic tales and poetry would meet with less favour in their eyes than a good political article from their newspapers.

A lot of innovation in language comes from poetry.

Even if you only want to write science fiction, you should also read mysteries, poetry, mainstream literature, history, biography, philosophy, and science.

I was really artistic. I did a lot of poetry, a lot of writing.

If I feel physically as if the top of my head were taken off, I know that is poetry.

Genius in general is poetic. Where genius has been active it has been poetically active. The truly moral person is a poet.