Quotes About Imagination

Fiction and poetry are the only way one can stop time and give an account of an experience and nail it down so that it lasts for ever.

I would like my books to stand as a tool to unbind children from expectations of poetry because it should free the child to self-expression and exploration.

The cliché is dead poetry. English, being the language of an imaginative race, abounds in clichés, so that English literature is always in danger of being poisoned by its own secretions.

It is through the intentionality of poetic imagination that the poet's soul discovers the opening of consciousness common to all true poetry.

The poetry of life must not be replaced with matter-of-fact prose.

I've always felt that a really good joke, a really good one-liner, is a really good line of poetry. It's imagistic, it's compact, there is a rhythm to it.

I myself always want to talk about "poetry," not "the poem."

For though, in nature, depth and height Are equally held infinite: In poetry, the height we know; 'Tis only infinite below.

Poetry is a diary kept by a sea creature who lives on land and wishes he could fly.

Poetry is a break for freedom.

Consider the difference between the first and third person in poetry [...] It's like the difference between looking at a person and looking through their eyes.

I hardly remember how I started to write poetry. It's hard to imagine what I thought poetry could do.

Why then we should drop into poetry.

How fortunate we are to exist in the moneyless economy of poetry! When you take money out of the equation, anything goes and nobody cares. It's truly free.

To cast aside from Poetry, all that is not Inspiration

The idea that language can be recombined to create new forms, new things, is of course very old in poetry.

I really came to literature through poetry.

Each man has his own batch of poems.

The starting point of a picture for any painter is a matter of colors and form...I believe that the poetry of art - if that is what one may call it - is a matter of animating these forms and colors.

Shakespeare wrote better poetry for not knowing too much; Milton, I think, knew too much finally for the good of his poetry.

Every genuine poet is necessarily a Columbus. America existed for centuries before Columbus but it was only Columbus who was able to track it down.

The poet is he who can write some pure mythology today without the aid of posterity.

Poetry is a way for me to explore a tingly feeling, to let it play itself out, and also to map it. I feel like I'm making little star maps when I write poems.

In order to write poetry, you must first invent a poet who will write it.