Quotes About Imagination

All poetry is experimental poetry.

Maybe that is the power of poetry. It somehow transcends news cycles, and becomes a part of our collective imagination. That is the beauty of the art form I like to play with.

Who would not spout the family teapot in order to talk with Keats for an hour about poetry, or with Jane Austen about the art of fiction?

Fiction will always be my greatest love, with poetry close behind.

It may be said that an education which does not succeed in making poetry a resource in the business of life as well as in its leisure, has something the matter with it.

Poetry and art are the breath of life to her.

I think poetry involves heightened noticing or imagining as well as creating a certain made shape. On the other hand, that shape can be made just by pointing at something and saying, "That's a poem".

He says his aim is poetry. One does not aim at poetry with pistols. At poets, perhaps.

Every great poem is in itself limited by necessity, but in its suggestions unlimited and infinite.

The world is full of poetry as the earth is of pay-dirt; one only needs to know how to strike it.

I cannot understand why poetry is not taught at schools as a way of seeing, a quick, untiring path to essentials.

I always wanted to write poetry, even when I was very young.

POETRY: A sliver of the moon lost in the belly of a golden frog.

Literature is always something - it is either story or poetry, ideally both. That is, you always know what it is and even if the interpretation is not available, the experience of language is.

I'm a firm believer in the idea that theater excels over film and TV in its ability to let people play with poetry.

I allow no hot-beds in the gardens of Parnassus.

The heaven of poetry and romance still lies around us and within us.

I go to a lot of museums, I read a ton of poetry - anything that's a creative expression of oneself, I find really inspiring.

There is a certain flimsiness of poetry which seems expedient in a song.

I am not ridiculing verbal mechanisms, dreams, or repressions as origins of poetry; all three of them and more besides may have a great deal to do with it.

Rural poetry is the pleasure ground of those who live in cities.

Poetry, is the insulation that lies between the inner walls of the mind.

Democritus maintains that there can be no great poet without a spite of madness.

Now, the process of writing poetry is very messy. Not systematic, never quite the same