Quotes About Imagination

The artist stands on the human being as a statue does on a pedestal.

The world must be romanticized. Only in that way will one rediscover its original senses. Romanticization is nothing less than a qualitative raising of the power of a thing . . . I romanticize something when I give the commonplace a higher meaning, the known the dignity of the unknown, and the finite the appearance of the infinite.

To philosophize means to make vivid.

Genius in general is poetic. Where genius has been active it has been poetically active. The truly moral person is a poet.

Novels arise out of the shortcomings of history.

Wer Schmetterlinge lachen hört, der weiß wie Wolken schmecken.

Ohne die Träume würden wir gewiss früher alt.

Our life is no dream; but it ought to become one, and perhaps will.

There is more truth in their romances than in learned chronicles.

Though the heroes and their fates are inventions, yet the spirit in which they are composed is true and natural.

Novels arise out of the shortcoings of history.

The greatest of sorcerers would be the one who would cast a spell on himself to the degree of taking his own phantasmagoria for autonomous apparitions. Might that not be our case?

Inni nie prze?yli niczego podobnego, cho? wys?uchali tych samych opowie?ci

Inspiration without intellect is useless and dangerous; and the poet will be able to perform few wonders, when he is astonished by wonders.

Hätten wir auch eine Phantastik wie eine Logik, so wäre die Erfindungskunst – erfunden. Zur Phantastik gehört auch die Ästhetik gewissermaßen wie die Vernunftlehre zur Logik.

One makes a great error if one believes there are 'ancients.' Only now is antiquity starting to arise. It arises in the eyes and soul of the artist.

Bütün tutkular bir trajedi gibi son bulur. Tek yanl? her ?ey, ölümle biter -i?te duygu felsefesi- i?te hayal gücü felsefesi, i?te dü?ünce felsefesi. Bütün hayat, ya?l?l?k ve ölümle son bulur. Her ?iirde trajik bir yan vard?r. Hakikî ?akan?n temelinde ciddiyet yatar. Fars?n, kukla oyununun, en renkli hayat?n, âdînin, trajik etkisi.

Bütün tutkular bir trajedi gibi son bulur. Tek yanl? her ?ey, ölümle biter -i?te duygu felsefesi- i?te hayal gücü felsefesi, i?te dü?ünce felsefesi. Bütün hayat, ya?l?l?k ve ölümle son bulur. Her ?iirde trajik bir yan vard?r. Hakikî ?akan?n temelinde ciddiyet yatar. Fars?n, kukla oyununun, en renkli hayat?n, âdînin, arabeskin trajik etkisi.

Ayn? masallar? dinlemelerine ra?men ötekiler hiç böyle bir ?ey ya?amad?lar.

Simbolicul incit?, stimuleaz? - înduio??torul emo?ioneaz? ?i mi?c?.

Ra?iunea ?i fantezia sunt religie - ra?iunea ?i inteligen?a, ?tiin??.

Ra?iunea practic? este fantezie creatoare pur?.

Bütün tutkular bir trajedi gibi son bulur. Tek yanl? her ?ey, ölümle biter -i?te duygu felsefesi- i?te hayal gücü felsefesi, i?te dü?ünce felsefesi. Bütün hayat, ya?l?l?k ve ölümle son bulur. Her ?iirde trajik bir yan vard?r. Hakikî ?akan?n temelinde ciddiyet yatar. Fars?n, kukla oyunun, en renkli hayat?n, âdînin, trajik etkisi.

Bird misses everything at once. One thing makes her want all the others— lived or not, still she misses them. She misses lives she has never lived— days issued out of the future , hours that will never be.