Quotes About Imagination

I kept thinking about my father's stony plot of land and much later, when I'd lost touch with him, each time I went back to that barren place I thought about the buried pyramids, about the one time I'd seen him riding over the tops of the pyramids, and I imagined him in the hut, when he was left alone and sat there smoking.

Alles is mogelijk. Dat zou elke dichter moeten weten.

Come on, can you imagine the Lone Ranger buying Silver at an auction? No, the Lone Ranger found Silver on the prairie. They found each other, and they hit it off. Same for Red Ryder. Only that ass Hopalong Cassidy would buy a new horse every year.

Soñé que nadie muere la víspera.

un poeta latinoamericano que al llegar la noche se echa en su jergón y sueña nn sueño maravilloso que atraviesa países y años un sueño maravilloso que atraviesa enfermedades y ausencias

No, I'm just a poet," said San Epifanio, making room for me. "Poetry is more than enough for me, although sooner or later I'm bound to commit the vulgarity of writing stories.

Our necessity. Our open mouth Where bread Goes in And dreams Come out.

Para nosotros el triunfo es la muerte del intelecto y de la imaginación. Nunca fuimos leales a los triunfadores.

When Espinoza was left alone (his flight was an hour later), his thoughts turned to Liz Norton and his real chances of wooing her. He imagined her and then he imagined himself, side by side, sharing an apartment in Madrid, going to the supermarket, both of them working in the German department. He imagined his office and her office, separated by a wall, and nights in Madrid next to her, eating with friends at good restaurants, and, back at home, an enormous bathtub, an enormous bed. •

Cuando uno lee jamás pierde el tiempo.

Para ella la lectura estaba relacionada directamente con el placer y

Poetry is the one thing that isn't contaminated, the one thing that isn't part of the game.

Only poetry isn't shit.

What child unable to sleep on a warm summer night hasn't thought he saw Peter Pan's sailing ship in the sky? I will teach you to see that ship.

La letteratura è una somma di vite: vissute e non vissute.

Nothing is so easy to fake as the inner vision.

To ask an author who hopes to be a serious writer if his work is autobiographical is like asking a spider where he buys his thread. The spider gets his thread right out of his own guts, and that is where the author gets his writing.

Art can certainly be an important pathway to discovery. It encourages us to be spontaneous, playful, and curious and to see what lies beneath the surface of our inner life.

Medical school had been a time for imaginary diseases and Martin had contracted almost all of them.

Art needs to be imaginatively undressed in order to be appreciated, and so does the world.

Imagination is not held within the mind, but it is potentially active in all the areas of transition from persons to objects or pictures. It operates, in other words, in the same zones as projection and its metaphors.

architecture begins and ends in pictures…

Besides, if there were no dragons of flesh and blood and fire, whence would come the idea for these stone carvings?

Remember with your heart. Go back, go back and go back. The skies of this world were always meant to have dragons. When they are not here, humans miss them. Some never think of them, of course. But some children, from the time they are small, they look up at the blue summer sky and watch for something that never comes. Because they know. Something that was supposed to be there faded and vanished. Something that we must bring back, you and I.