Quotes About Imagination

The wind is the moon's imagination wandering.

Literature is not a picture of life, but is a separate experience with its own kind of flow and enhancement.

I think that at the bottom of all art lies the impulse to preserve.

Know that there is often hidden in us a dormant poet, always young and alive.

Poetry is all nouns and verbs.

Poetry is truth dwelling in beauty.

Poetry is a big space and I love it.

I'm reading a manuscript by Rodney Jones, "Village Prodigies",it's one of the best contemporary poetry books I've ever read ever.

Poetry is only born after painful journeys into the vast regions of thought.

Poetry is when you make new things familiar and familiar things new

Before you ridicule, remember somebody on a railway platform who seems to be train spotting may actually be writing poetry.

Poetry is nothing but healthy speech.

Poetry is the overflowing of the Soul.

There is probably nothing wrong with art for art's sake if we take the phrase seriously, and not take it to mean the kind of poetry written in England forty years ago.

I am always pleased to be asked to write a poem.

Poetry is an art, and chief of the fine art; the easiest to dabble in, the hardest in which to reach true excellence.

I testify to rainbow feathers, to the span of heaven and walls of colour, the colonnades of jasper.

But I can only write what the muse allows me to write. I cannot choose, I can only do what I am given, and I feel pleased when I feel close to concrete poetry - still.

Laying out grounds may be considered a liberal art, in some sort like poetry and painting.

The productions of all arts are kinds of poetry and their craftsmen are all poets.

All pasts are like poems; one can derive a thousand things, but not live in them.

The field of action of a photograph should be that chessboard of the heart and mind upon which poetry and art have always operated

I want to write a book of poetry, as well as children's stories.

Poetry arrived in search of me. I don't know, I don't know where it came from, from winter or a river. I don't know how or when.