Quotes About Imagination

I've always thought my poems told stories.

I like poems that are complex.

I also write poems, so that is something that I really enjoy.

I tend to like poems that engage me - that is to say, which do not bore me.

My poems were just kind of all over the place. They had no focus, no location, nothing. Kind of a series of images that could have been set anywhere. A lot of the poems were just exercises for myself.

What we call a poem is mostly what is not there on the page. The strength of any poem is the poems that it has managed to exclude.

I think of myself as a writer who photographs. Images, for me, can be considered poems, short stories or essays. And I've always thought the best place for my photographs was inside books of my own creation.

I have been writing songs and poems since I was a little girl. I started writing short scripts, which evolved into the idea for a book.

I've been writing poems and stories since I was about 13.

When I was one day old, I learned how to read. When I was two days old, I started to write. By the time I was three, I had finished 212 short stories, 38 novels, 730 poems, and one very funny limerick, all before breakfast.

I do think that all of us think in poems.

Artists and writers have to deal with the element that makes the real real and the dream real while you are dreaming it. That's where stories and poems get their power.

I started to write my own stories, like small novels, and those novels became poems, and after poems, they became lyrics, and song came from that.

That sense of mystery, but also of revelation, is what I turn to poems for. They're able to embody experience. We need more and more of that.

People called me Cilla when I was little because I was always singing and writing poems.

I write poems.

When I was young, I would write all the time. Novels, plays, and poems. It's like a disease - my life is filled with fantasies, and I have to write them all down.

Short stories and poems are an intense burst of emotions.

There are two men inside the artist, the poet and the craftsman. One is born a poet. One becomes a craftsman.

The lunatic, the lover, and the poet, are of imagination all compact.

An actor is at most a poet and at least an entertainer.

And muse on Nature with a poet's eye.

I shall, in due time, be a Poet.

Only the poet can look beyond the detail and see the whole picture.