Quotes About Imagination

For me, prose walks, poetry dances.

True art can only spring from the intimate linking of the serious and the playful.

The greatest poem is not that which is most skillfully constructed, but that in which there is the most poetry.

For me the initial delight is in the surprise of remembering something I didn't know I knew. I have never started a poem yet whose end I knew.

Painting gives the object itself; poetry what it implies. Painting embodies what a thing contains in itself; poetry suggests what exists out of it, in any manner connected with it.

Whatever poetry that was in me was coming out in the form of constructing art books!

When I'm most deeply involved in my writing, sometimes I do dream about poetry, and occasionally I wake up from a dream with a phrase that I like well enough to put it in a poem.

I read a lot of prose poetry and get inspired by more-so just a state of mind.

To make a film you have to dream a film... that's true of poetry as well.

Poetry is a subject as precise as geometry.

Poetry, mythology, and religion represent the world as man would like to have it, while science represents the world as he gradually comes to discover it.

Painting can be like poetry but as somebody who creates both I feel the necessity for both so they cant be that similar. Sometimes I think it's as basic as not wanting to get dirty.

Poetry is a mirror which makes beautiful that which is distorted

So come to the pond, or the river of your imagination, or the harbor of your longing, and put your lips to the world.And live your life.

Besides, a long poem is a test of invention, which I take to be the Polar star of Poetry, as Fancy is the sails - and Imagination the rudder.

Poetry must be as new as foam, and as old as the rock.

The poet is the sayer, the namer, and represents beauty.

Open wide the mind's cage-door, She'll dart forth, and cloudward soar.

A life without books is a thirsty life, and one without poetry is...like a life without pictures.

To have great poets there must be great audiences too.

O that our dreamings all, of sleep or wake, Would all their colours from the sunset take.

The works of the great poets have never yet been read by mankind, for only great poets can read the.

It is Homer who has chiefly taught other poets the art of telling lies skilfully.

Every man is a poet at heart.