Quotes About Imagination

Most joyful the Poet be;It is through him that all men see.

that) but because God thought the whole thing up first. Fran illustrates this with the Sistine Chapel in Rome, where Michelangelo portrays the creation of

So, the world happens twice-- once what we see it as; second it legends itself deep, the way it is.

Imagine then, by miracle, with me,(Ambiguous gifts, as what gods give must be)What could not possibly be there,And learn a style from a despair.

Art is life, plus caprice.

It is in the order of the imagination, the order of poetry, that the possible exceeds itself, is sanctified in excess.

Dreams have only one owner at a time. That's why dreamers are lonely.

The artist is of no importance. Only what he creates is important, since there is nothing new to be said. Shakespeare, Balzac, Homer have all written about the same things, and if they had lived one thousand or two thousand years longer, the publishers wouldn't have needed anyone since.

Perhaps they were right putting love into books. Perhaps it could not live anywhere else.

Dreams have only one owner at a time. That's why dreamers are lonely.

If a story is in you, it has to come out.

Wonder. Go on and wonder.

We must dare to think about unthinkable things because when things become unthinkable thinking stops and action becomes mindless.

We must dare to think unthinkable thoughts. We must learn to explore all the options and possibilities that confront us in a complex and rapidly changing world.

Freud thought that a psychosis was a waking dream, and that poets were daydreamers too, but I wonder if the reverse is not as often true, and that madness is a fiction lived in like a rented house

Fiction becomes visual by becoming verbal

Dreaming in public is an important part of our job description, as science writers, but there are bad dreams as well as good dreams. We're dreamers, you see, but we're also realists, of a sort.

Virtual Reality is like mainlining television.

The future is there... looking back at us. Trying to make sense of the fiction we will have become.

One of the liberating effects of science fiction when I was a teenager was precisely its ability to tune me into all sorts of strange data and make me realize that I wasn't as totally isolated in perceiving the world as being monstrous and crazy

There must be room for the imagination to exercise its powers we must conceive and apprehend a thousand things which we do not actually witness.

There can be no passion, and by consequence no love, where there is not imagination.

When I was your age, television was called books.

He that loves reading has everything within his reach.