Quotes About Imagination

The greatest poem ever known Is one all poets have outgrown: The poetry, innate, untold, Of being only four years old.

Poetry is a kinetic arrangement of static syllables.

Poetry is the capture of a picture, a song, or a flair, in a deliberate prism of words.

We always cut our poetical theories to suit our talent.

The things I like to find in a story are punch and poetry.

Prose is a photography, poetry is a painting in oil-colors.

Writing poetry is a process of discovery...you can smell the poem before you see it....Like some animal.

Get rid of words and meaning, and there is still poetry.

The basis for poetry and scientific discovery is the ability to comprehend the unlike in the like and the like in the unlike.

Poetry ... is the music and painting of the mind.

Poetry is the gate through which I enter the land of enchantment. Once inside the flaming wall, my limitations fall from me, and my spirit is free.

When writing poetry, it is not that produces a bright idea, but the bright idea that kindles the fire of.

High School is the place where poetry goes to die.

I have been eating poetry.

Poetry is the alchemy which teaches us to convert ordinary materials into gold.

Poetry keeps longing alive.

The poet knows that he speaks adequately, then, only when he speaks somewhat wildly.

I wish that I could fly into the sky and touch the clouds with my hands.

Dream by making and make by dreaming.

Poetry is that art which selects and arranges the symbols of thought in such a manner as to excite the imagination the most powerfully and delightfully.

If an ancient man saw planes two thousand years ago He would've thought they were birds Or angels from another world Or messengers from other planets.

No poem ever bought a hamburger, or not too many.

Poetry is the scholar's art.

How poetry comes to the poet is a mystery.