Quotes About Imagination

Sherman Alexie, One Stick Song

Poetry is to be found nowhere unless we carry it within us.

one reason why I like writing poetry - you can say so many things in it that are true in poetry but wouldn't be true in prose.

Writing poetry is a state of free float.

It is through beauty, poetry and visionary power that the world will be renewed.

Only poetry inspires poetry.

Without poetry, stories would be told in sepia.

Painting was called silent poetry and poetry speaking painting.

Poetry demands a man with a special gift for it, or else one with a touch of madness in him.

Outrage and possibility are in all the poems we know.

But the more poetry one reads the more one longs to read!

History is a great deal closer to poetry than is generally realised: in truth, I think, it is in essence the same.

Give shape, artist! don't talk! Your poem be but a breath.

Writing is my number one passion. I've written two novels. I've written a screenplay. I also write short stories and poetry.

Fiction and poetry are my first loves, but the really beautiful lyrical essay can do so much that other forms cannot.

I believe that only poetry counts ... A great novelist is first of all a great poet.

Thinking is always the stumbling stone to poetry.

I tell it stories now and then and feed it images like honey. I will not speculate today with poems that think they're money.

Poetry is the only hopeEven if you do not believe it, you have to do it.

Probably the best nonsense poetry is produced gradually and accidentally, by communities rather than by individuals.

Poetry has become the higher algebra of metaphors.

Poetry has been the guardian angel of humanity in all ages.

Poetry is the morning dream of great minds.

What is poetry? The suggestion, by the imagination, of noble grounds for the noble emotions.