Quotes About Imagination

Poetry is all nouns and verbs.

Nor till the poets among us can be"literalists ofthe imagination"—aboveinsolence and triviality and can presentfor inspection, "imaginary gardens with realtoads in them," shall we have it.

Imaginary gardens with real toads in them.

when dragged into prominence by half poets, the result is not poetry, nor till the poets among us can be "literalists of the imagination" --above insolence and triviality and can present for inspection, "imaginary gardens with real toads in them," shall we have it.

But don't give me, if I can't have the dress, a trip to Greenland, or grim trip to the moon. The moon should come here. Let him make the trip down, spread on my dark floor some dim marvel, and if a success that I stoop to pick up and wear, I could ask nothing more.

when the daily reality presents itself as uncomprehendable, we fashion our own myths and then hold those phony truths to be inalienable.

My interior world does not correspond to the real world.

un ingenuo que pretendía llegar a la línea del horizonte.

Life is better when we imagine it

If you wish, gentle reader, you may augment your mental tableau with dramatic orchestral accompaniment.

Matriarchy is a time-honored staple for any writer looking to invent an exotic society.

The dragon within my heart stirred, shifting her wings, as if remembering they could be used to fly.

You may think you see plenty of stars, friend reader, but you are wrong. Night is both blacker and more brilliant than you can imagine, and the sky a glory that puts to shame the most splendid jewels at Renwick's. Up in the mountains, where the air is crisper than the humid atmosphere of Scirland, I beheld a beauty I had never before seen.

Night is both blacker and more brilliant than you can imagine, and the sky a glory that puts to shame the most splendid jewels at Renwick's.

for even the best artwork is a static thing of the eye alone, and words are by their nature linear.

Wild animals. I had not, until that moment, put dragons in that class. I had thought them something apart.

Mine udgydelser i notesbogen bestod af brudstykker af mit liv, som jeg arrangerede efter forgodtbefindende, jeg lod mig føre hvor som helst hen, jeg gennemlevede øjeblikke, som jeg aldrig havde oplevet i virkeligheden, men som jeg fantaserede mig til, jeg sad ikke i sandhedens gabestok som henne hos lægen.

Be less curious about people and more curious about ideas.

A scientist in his laboratory is not a mere technician: he is also a child confronting natural phenomena that impress him as though they were fairy tales.

Initially, I began writing myself into my favorite shows. I was a detective on 77 Sunset Strip, the missing Cartwright sibling they never talked about on Bonanza, and the Girl from U.N.C.L.E. before there was a Girl from U.N.C.L.E., not to mention an active participant in the serialized stories on The Mickey Mouse Club.

It's hard to become what you don't see.

Our minds are what give us the power to manufacture reality, both for ourselves and others. That's because . . .

Nothing exists in our world that does not first exist in our mind.

We're born creators with an innate power to bring our ideas and visions into reality.