Quotes About Imagination

He was not a scholar – his brain seemed too sluggish or too dreamy to grasp the things demanded of it – but he was never happier than when left alone among books, and would spend hours turning the pages of atlases, novels or tales from history, alive to the alternative versions of himself they seemed to proffer.

Might-have-beens are insidious, aren't they, in the way they don't ever quite lie still or go away.

Imagination, not reason, is the chief faculty of the soul.

The trick is to cultivate "double vision" … A sense of metaphor, of translation - of two worlds interpenetrating - must be maintained. But this is also the essential movement of the imagination. We see through the literal world to the shape-shifting Otherworld behind.

The more we imbue the world with imagination, the more the world is ensouled - and the more soul it returns to us, singing with meaning.

Imagination thrives on mystery

The idea of imagination implies deep participation and the harnessing of real desires in order to effect self-transformation

We cultivate soul by seeking depth, interiority, and connectedness - in short, by exercising imagination.

We have tested and tasted too much, lover- Through a chink too wide there comes in no wonder.

The sun rose and set in a land of dreams whether the clocks where right or wrong.

To be dead is to stop believing in the masterpieces we will begin tomorrow.

Human beings are not very imaginative nor creative, so we try to put all our experiences into existing templates and categories based on our previous experiences.

This will force you to dig deep, exercise your creative half, and find the positive insight in any topic that arises.

By and large, people are not that sensitive. People just imagine that they are, especially around certain topics.

the feeling of being lost in time and geography with months and years hazily sparkling ahead in a prospect of inconjecturable magic

My mother was filled with apprehension to begin with; we pored over the atlas, and, bit by bit as we pored, the comic possibilities began to unfold in absurd imaginary scenes until we were falling about with laughter; and by the time I caught the train to London next morning, she was infected with my excitement.

How enjoyable, how very enjoyable and luxurious it is, suddenly to emerge from the stern labyrinth of fact onto these dawn-lit uplands of surmise!

Every rock and stream is a myth.

Unless people have a vision of something beyond the bounds of their own natures, they cannot transcend their self-interest.

A million years ago - some hairy bastard daubed a horse on the wall of his cave, he saw it, he drew it - well done! Flash forward: 'Hello, welcome to my vlog. Today I bought a plum

who did I meet only Mrs Connolly with a grin swinging between her ears like a skipping rope.

Poetry was something everyone could agree on because no one could be certain of what it was about.

As we shook hands I wondered idly what her urine looked like.

Solitude is a terrible thing, for it permits the imagination to picture, in detail, that which perhaps should never be articulated.