Quotes About Imagination

I'm possibly possible.

We could retell our stories and make them better, more representational or aspirational. Or we could choose to tell different stories. The world itself had another chance.

What about little microphones? What if everyone swallowed them, and they played the sounds of our hearts through little speakers, which could be in the pouches of our overalls?

Everything is possible again." It was the perfect thing to write, because that was exactly how it felt. We could retell our stories and make them better, more representative or aspirational. Or we could choose to tell different stories. The world itself had another chance.

So Geographers in Afric-maps With Savage-Pictures fill their Gaps; And o'er uninhabitable Downs Place Elephants for want of Towns

When I am reading a book, whether wise or silly, it seems to me to be alive and talking to me.

Phantasie ist die Gabe, unsichtbare Dinge zu sehen.

When a man's fancy gets astride on his reason, when imagination is at cuffs with the senses, and common understanding as well as common sense, is kicked out of doors; the first proselyte he makes is himself.

Qual não foi o meu espanto quando enxerguei uma figurinha humana que pouco mais teria de seis polegadas, empunhando um arco e uma flecha, e com uma aljava às costas!

What about a teakettle? What if the spout opened and closed when the steam came out, so it would become a mouth, and it could whistle pretty melodies, or do Shakespeare, or just crack up with me? I could invent a teakettle that reads in Dad's voice, so I could fall asleep, or maybe a set of kettles that sings the chorus of Yellow Submarine, which is a song by the Beatles, who I love, because entomology is one of my raisons d'etre, which is a French expression that I know.

Stories help children sleep but also awaken adults.

No vivimos en la realidad sino en nuestra imagen de ella.

Ben cenneti hep bir çeÅŸit kütüphane olarak düÅŸlemiÅŸimdir.

Yo siempre me habia imaginado el paraiso bajo la especie de una biblioteca.

Of all man's instruments, the most wondrous, no doubt, is the book. The other instruments are extensions of his body. The microscope, the telescope, are extensions of his sight; the telephone is the extension of his voice; then we have the plow and the sword, extensions of the arm. But the book is something else altogether: the book is an extension of memory and imagination.

Hay quienes no pueden imaginar un mundo sin pájaros; hay quienes no pueden imaginar un mundo sin agua; en lo que a mi se refiere, soy incapaz de imaginar un mundo sin libros. There are those who cannot imagine a world without birds; there are those who cannot imagine a world without water; but in my case I am unable to imagine a world without books.

Man's memory shapes Its own Eden within

I think that the reader should enrich what he is reading. He should misunderstand the text; he should change it into something else.

To think, analyze and invent are not anomalous acts, but the normal respiration of the intelligence.

Leaving behind the babble of the plaza, I enter the Library. I feel, almost physically, the gravitation of the books, the enveloping serenity of order, time magically dessicated and preserved.

Paradise will be a kind of library

It is a laborious madness and an impoverishing one, the madness of composing vast books - setting out in five hundred pages an idea that can be perfectly related orally in five minutes. The better way to go about it is to pretend that those books already exist, and offer a summary, a commentary on them. (From the Introduction of 1941's The Garden of Forking Paths)

Si me quieren buscar, búsquenme en los libros. No los lean, por favor, si no obtienen placer.

I have always imagined that Paradise will be some kind of library.