Quotes About Imagination

Colour which is the poet's wealth is so expensive that most take to mere outline sketches and become men of science.

Poetry creates the myth, the prose writer draws its portrait.

How do poems grow? They begin deep down in the pit of the soul as a seedling of a thought …

Art: If the object of poetry is, to make men, then poetry is the heir of prophecy.

...my heart rides the wind and my thoughts sail away - to a land below the horizon where I know you hide from me...

Let your heart dance with pen and paperNow fill the paper with dancing letters.

All that we see and seem is but a dream within a dream.

I'd rather write poetry than watch TV it allows me to share the wide screen in me.

Des Menschen Kraft, im Dichter offenbartThe human power is revealed by poetIl potere dell'umanità si rivela nel poeta

~ Not every poem is meant for oral stimulation, some are better devoured mentally.

Man is in his own microcosm akin to a personal box, with poetry as its lid which it can defend itself from the world

Man has reached the moon, but twenty centuries ago a poet knew the enchantments that would make the moon come down to earth.

Poetry is the beauty of life.

Dylan Thomas, Under Milk Wood

Poetry the eldest sister of all arts and parent of most.

Poetry therefore we will call Musical Thought.

Trying to pump breath into a fairy tale is as arduous and tragic as ancient Greek theatre.

Poets and painters are outside the class system or rather they constitute a special class of their own like the circus people and the gypsies.

The mind that finds its way to wild places is the poet's but the mind that never finds its way back is the lunatic's.

Most joyful let the Poet be it is through him that all men see.

A good poet is someone who manages in a lifetime of standing out in thunderstorms to be struck by lightning five or six times.

If poetry dies, nothing lives !

Poetry is the opening and closing of a door leaving those who look through to guess what is seen during a moment.

For me poetry is an evasion of the real job of writing prose.