Quotes About Imagination

A man, to be greatly good, must magine intensely and comprehensively; he must put himself in the place of another and in many others; the pains and pleasures of his species must become his own.

a single word even may be a spark of inextinguishable thought

Poets, the best of them, are a very chameleonic race; they take the colour not only of what they feed on, but of the very leaves under which they pass

To hope until hope creates from its very own wreck the thing it contemplates.

Poetry lifts the veil from the hidden beauty of the world, and makes familiar objects be as if they were not familiar.

to hope til Hope creates from its own wreak the thing it contemplates;

War is a kind of superstition, the pageantry of arms and badges corrupts the imagination of men.

Hail to thee, blithe spirit! Bird thou never wert.

Poetry enlarges the circumference of the imagination by replenishing it with thoughts of ever new delight, which have the power of attracting and assimilating to their own nature all other thoughts, and which form new intervals and interstices whose void for ever craves fresh food.

And what were thou, and earth, and stars, and sea, If to the human mind's imaginings Silence and solitude were vacancy?

We want the creative faculty to imagine that which we know; we want the generous impulse to act that which we imagine; we want the poetry of life: our calculations have outrun conception; we have eaten more than we can digest. The

Reason respects the differences, and Imagination the similitudes of things.

Poets are the unacknowledged legislators of the world":

that great poem, which all poets, like the co-operating thoughts of one great mind, have built up since the beginning of the world.

True Love in this differs from gold and clay, That to divide is not to take away. Love is like understanding, that grows bright Gazing on many truths; 'tis like thy light, Imagination! which from earth and sky, And from the depths of human fantasy, As from a thousand prisms and mirrors, fills The Universe with glorious beams, and kills Error, the worm, with many a sun-like arrow Of its reverberated lightning. Epipsychidion

Poetry, in a general sense, may be defined to be 'the expression of the imagination': and poetry is connate with the origin of man.

As flowers beneath May's footstep waken, As stars from Night's loose hair are shaken, As waves arise when loud winds call, Thoughts sprung where'er that step did fall.

One after another the greatest writers, poets, and artists confirm the fact that their work comes to them from beyond the threshold of consciousness.

A man, to be greatly good, must imagine intensely and comprehensively; he must put himself in the place of another and many others; the pains and pleasures of his species must become his own. The great instrument of moral good is the imagination.

Poetry is a mirror which makes beautiful that which is distorted

Know what it is to be a child? It is to be something very different from the man of today. It is to have a spirit yet streaming from the waters of Baptism; it is to believe in belief; it is to be so little that elves can reach to whisper in your ear; it is to turn pumpkins into coaches, and mice into horses, lowness into loftiness, and nothing into everything, for each child had its fairy godmother in its soul.

A clever, imagination, humorous request can open closed doors and closed minds.

The cloud of mind is discharging its collected lightning.

The great instrument of moral good is the imagination.