Quotes About Imagination

Lying naked and cold beneath the perfect, whispering dark, I imagined I could feel the curve of the earth under my back, that I circled the whole planet so that my soles touched the top of my head and I blended with the dirt.

That's…" "An excellent idea. I do have them sometimes. Yes. Now go.

Watch man and woman, her mother had said, put yourself inside them. Imagine what they're thinking.

These are tales of the world," she told her. "All the adventure, all the different and new you need.

She touched the pool and fell the echo of that faraway lake, the promise of all that was wide and bright and clear that she would one one day find.

Watch men and women, her mother had said, put yourself inside them. Imagine what they're thinking.

For a moment Peretur could not speak, only sit with sensation flickering up and down her belly and back, like a school of fish swimming in and out of the light.

She fell into a waking dream and on clear nights walked for miles on the world and in the woods.

Stay in the world, she had said, and this was the world I had made.

She closed her eyes, willing her vision to rise from the blood-spattered green mountainside.

Watch women and men, put yourself inside them. Imagine what they're thinking.

At this time of night, anything was possible.

Sometimes she swung a stick sword: she had learnt long since that it made him happy for her to pretend to be Branwen the Bold, just as it made her happy for him to be still when she was watching and listening.

Her smile was the kind of smile Hild had imagined on the water sprite's face as she pulled her down and drowned her.

Bravery is relative. Perhaps it's the same with dreams.

Nothing is until it is and until then everything is possible.

Poetry rescues things by reconciling matter and spirit in the metaphor.

Egalitarian societies strangle the imagination without even satisfying envy.

Der authentische Atheismus hat für die menschliche Intelligenz den gleichen Stellenwert wie die Unendlichkeit für die Vorstellungskraft.

El gran arte literario está en presentar con plenitud plástica lo inefable.

Authentic atheism is as important to human intelligence as infinity is to imagination.

Puedes vender cielo, el cielo azul a veces, o gris también a veces, una parcela de tu cielo, el que compraste, piensas tú, con los árboles] de tu huerto, como quien compra el techo con la casa?] ¿Puedes venderme un dólar de cielo, dos kilómetros de cielo, un trozo, el que tú piensas, de tu cielo?

Art, likewise, is no longer seeking to represent utopias; rather, it is attempting to construct concrete spaces.

I like fantasy. I like horror, science fiction because I can get avant-garde with those performances in those movies.