Quotes About Imagination

Back then, Billy imagined that drops of rain were unanswered prayers falling back to earth.

I think of poetry and how I see it as just a raw block of stone ready to be shaped, that way words are never a horrible limit to me, just tools to shape.

It was in Central Park near the lake and I watched a weeping willow turn into a giant rooster and fly off. No tree remained. It glided beautifully into the sky, a big blue barnyard. My mind went with it, something all you bald head generals and wheelchair senators could never imagine.

Ah but Art never fails anyone, magic and medicine may certainly fail, but never Art.

The impossible is often the untried.

I'm hoping to be astonished tomorrow by I don't know what.

Life's like a movie, write your own ending. Keep believing, keep pretending.

The most sophisticated people I know - inside they are all children.

Life's like a movie, write your own ending. Keep believing, keep pretending.

As children, we all live in a world of imagination, of fantasy, and for some of us that world of make-believe continues into adulthood.

I don't know exactly where ideas come from, but when I'm working well ideas just appear. I've heard other people say similar things - so it's one of the ways I know there's help and guidance out there. It's just a matter of our figuring out how to receive the ideas or information that are waiting to be heard.

Life's like a movie, write your own ending. Keep believing, keep pretending. We've done just what we set out to do. Thanks to the lovers, the dreamers and you.

Who said that every wish would be heard and answered when wished on an evening star? Somebody thought of it and someone believed it, and look what its done so far.

I think if you study--if you learn too much of what others have done, you may tend to take the same direction as everybody else.

Innovation delivers products that we can barely imagine. Efficiency and optimization are appropriate drivers for a production project, whereas innovation and creativity should drive an exploration-type project. A production mindset can restrict our vision to what appears doable. An exploration mindset helps us explore what seems impossible.

Make no little plans; they have no magic to stir men's blood. —Daniel H. Burnham

nothing is original. steal from anywhere that resonates with inspiration or fuels your imagination

The creative mind cannot be constrained by logical thinking.

Paint the painting in front of you- not the one in your head.

If you think things cannot get worse, it is probably because you lack sufficient imagination.

So much is yet to come. Soon will be blankets and pillows, and books by the bed to make the stuff of dreams. And then tomorrows.

If my poetry aims to achieve anything, it's to deliver people from the limited ways in which they see and feel.

Listen, real poetry doesn't say anything; it just ticks off the possibilities. Opens all doors. You can walk through anyone that suits you.

Listen, real poetry doesn't say anything; it just ticks off the possibilities. Opens all doors. You can walk through anyone that suits you.