Quotes About Imagination

She sighed again, wondering how she'd be described as a character in one of her much-loved romance books.

Poetry is priceless.... a way of keeping yourself feeling rich and civilized even when you're quite poor.

Poems] train and exercise the imagination. Trained imaginations are what we need most at a time like this. That is what will enable us to reach across cultures and understand each other, to think of new models and modes of organization that might work better, and to wage peace, because the love of beauty is deeply related to the love of peace.

Eugene Peterson claims that "to eyes that can see, every bush is a burning bush:' Poems, when they are doing what they do best, offer us a glimpse of that fire.

The exercise of the imagination is the training ground of compassion. Stories educate the heart. Stories, like poetry, are related to prayer.

But she continued to wonder what the fish tasted like, so brilliant and vivid pink. Would it taste pink?

imagine that it were given back to me to be the child who knew departure would be sweet, the boy who drew square-rigged ships, the girl who knew truck routes from ottawa to mexico, the me who found a door in latin verse and made a map out of hexameters.

We all use our imagination every day. However, most of us are unaware that what we envision affects every cell of our bodies and every aspect of our performance.

Art gives me the freedom I don't have when I make music.

I can't satisfy myself with just trying to tie all of my imagination into music, especially when music is not appreciated as an art form as much as it used to be.

Fear feeds the imagination.

When we stop fearing failure, we start being artists.

Fear is often bred of an imagination that couldn't let something be what it actually was.

If you have an imagination, welcome to the gates of Reality.

To look beyond our horizons is to acknowledge that we've hemmed ourselves in by creating them in the first place.

The anticipation of loss is much more frightening than the actual loss as anticipation leaves room for the imagination to create that which, in all likelihood, will never transpire.

Because I have 'chosen' to see something as impossible, there's a good chance that it's not.

If we didn't have nightmares, we wouldn't wake up every morning chasing our dreams.

Dangers were no more than odd imaginings, like ghost stories that children made up to frighten one another: things that couldn't possibly happen.

What you couldn't see and only imagined was always scarier than what was real.

If you're frightened of the countless number of books in the library, you'll never write anything, until you close your eyes and hold the pen.

Fear is and has always been dead. It's how we picture it that makes fear come to life.

When I was a kid I worried that when I woke up, I'd find my family having breakfast with my doppelgänger. We would fight to the death, and then my family would peacefully finish breakfast.

Art, in other words, betrays a sexy mental fitness.