Quotes About Imagination

Poetry, like dreams, will eventually break through every person's consciousness, even the tightest iconoclast's.

Poetry is a tracing of the trajectories of a finite sound to the infinite points of its echoes.

Our best history is still poetry.

I write poetry anyway and have for years and years. For me, putting fiction and poetry together is like the best of both worlds.

when a poem says something that could not have been said in any other way, in music, prose, sculpture, movement or paint, then it is poetry.

I think it's true that that's something that poetry can go to school on fiction. I think poetry can go to fiction to learn.

Most of humanity gets by without reading novels or poetry, and no one would deny the richness of their thoughts.

In high school I was drawn to the study of literature, poetry Shakespeare, contemporary fiction, drama, you name it - I read it.

When we let ourselves respond to poetry, to music, to pictures, we are clearing a space where new stories can root, in effect we are clearing a space for new stories about ourselves.

Imagination in poetry, as distinguished from mere fancy is the transfiguring of the real or actual to the ideal.

Poetry has to be something more than a conception of the mind. It has to be a revelation of nature. Conceptions are artificial. Perceptions are essential.

but as God said, crossing his legs, I see where I have made plenty of poets but not so very much poetry.

Ultimately I have learned more about poetry, from music and magic than from literature.

The spirit of poetry combines the profundity of the philosopher and the child's delight in bright pictures.

And a lot of poetry is putting yourself back into the state of wonder that you have before things when you're a child. It's not only a joyous wonder, it's sometimes a grief stricken wonder.

Good prose is written only face to face with poetry.

I came to poetry because I felt I couldn't live properly in the real world.

Poetry and I fit together. I can't imagine being without it... It is food and drink, it is all seasons, it is the stuff of all existence.

There's no preparation for poetry.

We were clever enough to turn a laundry list into poetry.

Poetry will absorb and transmute, as it always has done, and glorify, all that we can know.

A poet is a painter of the soul.

Poetry, I'm often told, is something made of words. I think it really goes the other way around: words are made of poetry.

Poetry gets to be the poetry of life by successfully becoming first the poetry of poetry.