Quotes About Imagination

Keats mourned that the rainbow, which as a boy had been for him a magic thing, had lost its glory because the physicists had found it resulted merely from the refraction of the sunlight by the raindrops. Yet knowledge of its causation could not spoil the rainbow for me. I am sure that it is not given to man to be omniscient. There will always be something left to know, something to excite the imagination of the poet and those attuned to the great world in which they live (p. 64)

He moves in darkness as it seems to me Not of woods only and the shade of trees.

I have never started a poem yet whose end I knew. Writing a poem is discovering.

I could say Elves to him, But it's not elves exactly, and I'd rather He said it for himself.

The figure a poem makes. It begins in delight and ends in wisdom. –

And poems are all that matter. The utmost of ambition is to lodge a few poems where they will be hard to get rid of. –

If the dream is held close to the heart, and imagination is applied to what there is close at hand. Everything is still possible.

Imagination is more important than information. Einstein said that, and he should know. And they come. And they look. And we push. And they fly. We to stay and die on our beds. They to go and die howsoever, yet inspiring those who come after them to find their own edge. And fly.

I believe that imagination is stronger than knowledge.

Storyteller's Creed: I believe that imagination is stronger than knowledge. That myth is more potent than history. That dreams are more powerful than facts. That hope always triumphs over experience. That laughter is the only cure for grief. And I believe that love is stronger than death.

And I'm not confused about the lack of, or the need for, imagination in low or high places. We could do better we must do better. There are far worse things to drop on people than crayolas.

If you want an interesting party sometime combine a few cocktails and a box of crayons.

Imagination is more important than information." Einstein said that, and he should know.

There are far worse things to drop on people than Crayolas.

Imagination is better than knowledge.

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It is not true, by the way, that mermaids do not exist. I know at least one personally. I have held her hand.

Life is—and we are—byproducts of combustion. Imagination turned to form and finally, memory.

If you only make it up, you never have to live it down.

Creativity is a combination of discipline and childlike spirit.

If everything in a dream were realistic, it would have no power over us; if everything were unreal, we would feel less involved in its pleasures and fears. Its fusion of the two is what makes it haunting.

Creative Endeavors are by their nature uncertain.

What people lack in life is not more reality but illusion, fantasy, play.

Too much attention early on will actually just suggest insecurity, and raise doubts as to your motives. Worst of all, it gives your targets no room for imagination.