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Quotes About Imagination

They have no imagination. A tail is just a tail to them, just a little something extra in the back.
~ A.A. Milne
Piglet said that Tigger was very Bouncy, and that if they could think of a way of unbouncing him, it would be a Very Good Idea. "Just what I feel," said Rabbit. "What do you say, Pooh?" Pooh opened his eyes with a jerk and said, "Extremely." "Extremely what?" asked Rabbit. "What you were saying," said Pooh. "Undoubtably.
~ A.A. Milne
But wherever they go, and whatever happens to them on the way, in that enchanted place on the top of the Forest, a little boy and his Bear will always be playing.
~ A.A. Milne
Thank you, Christopher Robin. You're the only one who seems to understand about tails. They don't think — that's what's the matter with some of these others. They've no imagination. A tail isn't a tail to them , it's just a Little Bit Extra at the back.
~ A.A. Milne
Supposing a tree fell down, Pooh, when we were underneath it?' 'Supposing it didn't,' said Pooh. After careful thought Piglet was comforted by this.
~ A.A. Milne
Childhood is not the happiest time of one's life, but only to a child is pure happiness possible.
~ A.A. Milne
You mean Piglet. The little fellow with the excited ears. That's Piglet.
~ A.A. Milne
Well, he was humming this hum to himself, and walking along gaily, wondering what everybody else was doing, and what it felt like, being somebody else
~ A.A. Milne
Here I am in the dark alone, What is it going to be? I can think whatever I like to think, I can play whatever I like to play, I can laugh whatever I like to laugh, There's nobody here but me.
~ A.A. Milne
That's what Jagulars always do," said Pooh, much interested. "They call 'Help! Help!' and then when you look up, they drop on you." "I'm looking down," cried Piglet loudly, so as the Jagular shouldn't do the wrong thing by accident.
~ A.A. Milne
Hallo, Rabbit," he said, "is that you?" "Let's pretend it isn't," said Rabbit, "and see what happens." "I've got a message for you." "I'll give it to him.
~ A.A. Milne
Christopher Robin, you must shoot the balloon with your gun.
~ A.A. Milne
Sing Ho! for the life of a Bear!
~ A.A. Milne
HIPY PAPY BTHUTHDTH THUTHDA BTHUTHDY. Pooh
~ A.A. Milne
There, just inside the gates, was Mary. He was only six, but even then he knew that never would he see again anything so beautiful. She was five; but there was something in her manner of holding herself and the imperious tilt of her head which made her seem almost five-and-a-half. [From John Penquarto A Tale of Literary Life in London
~ A.A. Milne
Once upon a time, a very long time ago now, about last Friday, Winnie-the-Pooh lived in a forest all by himself...
~ A.A. Milne
Antony could never resist another person's bookshelves. As soon as he went into the room, he found himself wandering round it to see what books the owner read, or (more likely) did not read, but kept for the air which they lent to the house.
~ A.A. Milne
Well, you both went out with the blue balloon, and you took your gun with you, just in case, as you always did
~ A.A. Milne
But it isn't Easy,' said Pooh to himself.... 'Because Poetry and Hums aren't things which you get, they're things which get you . And all you can do is to go where they can find you. He waited hopefully... [...] 'So there it is,' said Pooh, when he had sung this to himself three times. 'It's come different from what I thought it would, but it's come.
~ A.A. Milne
It's a very funny thought that, if Bears were Bees, They'd build their nests at the bottom of trees. And that being so (if the Bees were Bears), We shouldn't have to climb up all these stairs.
~ A.A. Milne
In Which Piglet Is Entirely Surrounded by Water 130 X In Which Christopher Robin Gives Pooh a Party, and We Say Good-bye 147
~ A.A. Milne
Fairytales are full of impossible tasks.
~ A.E. Stallings
Empezó a tener una leve idea de lo que quería decir, y quedó maravillado al pensar en cuántos hombres andaban por el mundo, de aspecto vulgar y tranquilo, que ocultaban fantasías exóticas y poéticas creencias, insospechadas siquiera, hasta que la enfermedad privaba al cerebro de su gobierno.
~ A.E.W. Mason
Once men imagine a danger they soon turn it into a reality.
~ A.J.P. Taylor