Quotes About Imagination

De chico, yo solía maravillarme de que las letras de un volumen cerrado no se mezclaran y perdieran en el decurso de la noche.

Yo, que me figuraba el Paraíso bajo la especie de una biblioteca.

Non c'è nulla di antico sotto il sole. Tutto accade per la prima volta, ma in un modo eterno. Chi legge le mie parole sta inventandole.

Toda ficción es una impostura; lo que importa es sentir que ha sido soñada sinceramente.

And life is, I am sure, made of poetry. Poetry is not alien--poetry is, as we will see, lurking round the corner. It may spring on us at any moment.

If the characters of a fictional work can be readers or spectators, we, its readers or spectators, can be fictions.

He walked against the florid banners of the fire. And the fire did not bite his flesh but caressed and engulfed him without heat or combustion. With relief, with humiliation, with terror, he understood that he, too, was all appearance, that someone else was dreaming him.

I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library. I cannot sleep unless I am surrounded by books.

Por el acorde que no hemos oído, por los versos que no nos encontraron (su número es el número de la arena), por el inexplorado universo.

If you ask me why I wrote "A thousand tambourines of crystal, wounded the light of daybreak –Mil panderos di cristal, herían la madruga," I will tell you that I saw them in the hands of trees and angels, but I cannot say more: I cannot explain their meaning. And that is how it should be. Through poetry a man more quickly reaches the cutting edge that the philosopher and the mathematician silently turn away from.

Instinctively, he had already trained himself in the habit of pretending that he was someone, so it would not be discovered that he was no one.

Lectura este un mod de a tr?i ?i a visa lumea. (Andrei Ionescu despre Borges)

Preveo que el hombre se resignará cada día a empresas más atroces; pronto no habrá sino guerreros y bandoleros; les doy este consejo: ´El ejecutor de una empresa atroz debe imaginar que ya la ha cumplido, debe imponerse un porvenir que sea irrevocable como el pasado.´

es menos duro sobrellevar un acontecimiento espantoso que imaginarlo y aguardarlo sin fin

Their lack of imagination makes them cruel.

Tôi luôn m??ng t??ng r?ng Thiên ???ng cÅ©ng t?a tá»±a nhÆ° má»™t thÆ° vi?n v?y

We took out our heavy revolvers (all of a sudden there were revolvers in the dream) and joyfully killed the Gods.

A writer lives. The task of being a poet is not completed at a fixed schedule. No one is a poet from eight to twelve and from two to six. Whoever is a poet is one always, and continually assaulted by poetry.

T]he aesthetic act cannot be carried out without some element of astonishment, and that to be astonished by rote is difficult.

There's nothing old under the sun. Everything happens for the first time, but in an eternal fashion. He who reads my words is inventing them.

Miró los árboles y el cielo subdivididos en rombos turbiamente amarillos, verdes y rojos.

Uno de los hábitos de la mente es la invención de imaginaciones horribles.

If only some eternal book existed, primed for our enjoyment and whims, no less inventive in the populous morning than the secluded night, oriented toward all hours of the world. Your favourite books, reader, are like rough drafts of that book without a final reading. - Literary Pleasure

A veces anhelaba con impaciencia la definitiva descarga, que lo redimiría, mal o bien, de su vana tarea de imaginar