Quotes About Imagination

Poetry is a kind of gasp, and there it is, a spark on the page. Fiction, on the other hand, is like swamp fire.

Poetry is one of the original arts, and it began, as did all the fine arts, within the original wilderness of the earth.

On sighting mathematicians poetry should unhook the algebra from their minds and replace it with poetry; on sighting poets it should unhook poetry from their minds and replace it with algebra.

Shut up the door: who loves me must not look / Upon the withered world, but haste to bring / His lighted candle, and his story-book, / And live with me the poetry of spring.

Poetry is a shuffling of boxes of illusions buckled with a strap of facts.

True poetry is a function of awakening. It awakens us, but it must retain the memory of previous dreams.

Sentiment is the poetry of the imagination.

I wrote a lot of poetry that was based on stories of the sea and I was really inspired by that.

Poetry, a speaking picture to teach and delight.

I'm only able to write poetry, for the most part, when I have a Muse, a woman who focuses the world for me.

You arrive at truth through poetry; I arrive at poetry through truth.

Without poetry our science will appear incomplete, and most of what now passes with us for religion and philosophy will be replaced by poetry.

Ever been kidnapped by a poet if i were a poet i'd kidnap you put you in my phrases and meter.

Modern poets add a lot of water to their ink.

The works of great poets have never been read by mankind, for only great poets can read them.

Poetry can only be made out of other poems; novels out of other novels.

Poetry is like painting: one piece takes your fancy if you stand close to it, another if you keep at some distance.

For a poet, making poems is a way of viewing the world, being in the world, breathing.

Poetry's a mere drug, Sir.

There is a great amount of poetry in unconscious fastidiousness.

Imagining is in itself the very height and life of poetry, which, by a kind of enthusiasm or extraordinary emotion of the soul, makes it seem to us that we behold those things which the poet paints.

I'll be a poet, and you'll be poetry.

Every word was once a poem.

It was as important to live poetically as to write poems.