Quotes About Imagination

I would like to be a philosopher in ancient Athens and a poet in ancient China.

There is something about a poet which leads us to believe that he died, in many cases, as long as 20 years before his birth.

If everybody became a poet the world would be much better. We would all read to each other.

I'm not a journalist; I'm a poet.

There is no scientific discoverer, no poet, no painter, no musician, who will not tell you that he found ready made his discovery or poem or picture - that it came to him from outside, and that he did not consciously create it from within.

The eye is the notebook of the poet.

The word poet literally means maker: anything which is not well made doesn't exist.

To be able to write a play a man must be sensitive, imaginative, naive, gullible, passionate; he must be something of an imbecile, something of a poet, something of a liar, something of a damn fool.

As fire kindled by fire, so is the poet's mind kindled by contact with a brother poet.

I started out as a poet. I've always been a poet since I was 7 or 8. And so I feel myself to be fundamentally a poet who got into writing novels.

The degree in which a poet's imagination dominates reality is, in the end, the exact measure of his importance and dignity.

But Wordsworth is the poet I admire above all others.

I like it when someone gives me a new book of poetry by a poet I haven't read.

I think there's a deep impulse in most humans to do creative stuff, whether that's music or art, photography or writing. Most people at some point in their life say they want to do something creative - they want to be an actor, a director, a writer, a poet, a painter or whatever.

If you want to be a poet, you can just write it on a napkin, and it's the length of the napkin, I guess. But usually you decide you'll rhyme it, or you'll have a formula. In radio, that's something called, 'Close your eyes and listen.'

A novelist can get by on story, but the poet has nothing but the words.

The best poems come from the world, go through the poet, and go back in to the world.

My working habit is to separate my aims as a painting from my aims as a poet. They come from very different places and ultimately lead me to very different places... I'll leave what I mean by 'places' ambiguous.

I'm a poet.

There are no poetic ideas; only poetic utterances.

In real life, having your poetry criticized by T.S. Eliot could cause you to doubt your poetic gifts. But imagining it in a dream has the opposite effect. That dream could become the source for a story.

One of the things I think about as I've evolved as an architect is, 'Where do the poetic impulses come from?'

I write autobiographically, although I apply liberal amounts of poetic license.

English is really free for me; there's no limits to the music and the imagination. And French, it's just I live in Paris, and it's really a poetic language where you can really play with words.