Quotes About Imagination

Children are particularly literary, for they say what they feel not what someone has taught them to feel.

Io mi siedo sulla soglia e immergo il mio sguardo e il mio udito nei colori e nei suoni del paesaggio e canto piano piano, per me soltanto, dei vaghi canti che compongo nell'attesa.

Posso immaginare tutto perché non sono niente. Se fossi qualcosa non potrei immaginare.

All beauty is a dream, even if it exists, For beauty is always more than it is. The beauty I see in you Isn't here, next to me. What I see in you lives where I dream, Far away from here. If you exist, I only know it Because I just dreamed it. — Fernando Pessoa, from "All beauty is a dream, even if it exists," 22 April 1934, A Little Larger Than the Entire Universe: Selected Poems , ed. & transl. Richard Zenith (Penguin Classics, 2006)

Literature is the most agreeable way of ignoring life

The only way to survive in this world is by keeping alive our dream, without ever fulfilling it, since the fulfilment never measures up to what we imagine.

I never tried to be anything other than a dreamer. I never paid any attention to people who told me to go out and live. I belonged always to whatever was far from me and to whatever I could never be. Anything that was not mine, however base, always seemed to be full of poetry.

no nostalgia hurts as much as nostalgia for things that never existed!

We never disembark from ourselves. We never attain another existence unless we other ourselves by actively, vividly imagining who we are. The true landscapes are those that we ourselves create since, being their gods, we see them as they truly are, which is however we created them. None of the four corners of the world is the one that interests me and that I can truly see; it's the fifth corner that I travel in, and it belongs to me.

Leer es soñar de la mano del otro. Leer mal y por encima es tanto como librarnos de la mano que nos guía. La superficialidad en la erudición es el mejor modo de leer bien y ser profundo.

Zeii n-au decât s?-mi modifice visurile,îns? nu ÅŸi darul de a visa.

Civilization consists in giving something a name that doesn't belong to it and then dreaming over the result.

The truth is, though, that the things we love most, or think we love, only have their full value when we merely dream them.

Tenemos todos dos vidas: la verdadera, que es la que soñamos en la infancia, y que continuamos soñando, adultos en un sustrato de niebla; la falsa, que es la que vivimos en convivencia con los demás, que es la práctica, la útil, aquella en que terminan por meternos en un cajón.

I've created various personalities within. I constantly create personalities. Each of my dreams, as soon as I start dreaming it, is immediately incarnated in another person, who is then the one dreaming it, and not I.

To narrate is to create, whilst to live is merely to be lived.

Cum eu mi-am luat visurile drept realitate ÅŸi mi-am tr?it cât se poate mai intens propriile-mi visuri,acestea au f?cut s?-i creasc? un spin trandafirului fictiv al vieÅ£ii mele visate.Asrfel încât pân? ÅŸi visurile mele îmi displac,c?ci le g?sesc tot felul de defecte.

But if the Dream Kings were mine, what would I have to dream about? If I possessed the impossible landscapes, what would remain of the impossible?

Let me return to childhood and stay there forever, caring nothing for the values that grown men give to things or for the relationships that grown men establish between them.

I know of no pleasure like that of books, yet I read very little. Books are the entryway to dreams, but people at ease in life don't need such introductions to enter into conversation with dreams. I could never read a book and give myself over to it; always, with each step, the commentary of my intellect or my imagination interrupts the narrative sequence. After some minutes I am the one who writes and the writing is nowhere to be seen.

Those who have Gods don't have tedium. Tedium is the lack of a mythology.

Os meus sonhos são um refúgio estúpido, como um guarda-chuva contra um raio.

La letteratura, come tutta l'arte, è la confessione che la vita sola non basta.

For superior men, life should be a dream that spurns confrontations.