Quotes about Imagination

Everyone can open a book not everyone can appreciate the beauty of the writing.

There is not only more to each soul's journey than we imagine, usually there is more than we can imagine.

think one of the worst enemies of creativity is self-doubt.

Consider your own deepest fears-real or imagined. Actually all fear is born of the imagination, which means that the danger we fear doesn't need to be rational or even real to be potent.

Do we have dreams, or do dreams have us?

If the embryo could reason in the womb, it would wonder why it grew hands and feet, and it would surely conclude that there must be another world to play and run and work.

It's as if Thomas Kinkade and Dante were at a party, and one turned to the other sometime after midnight and uttered that classic line You know, we really should work together sometime...

Writing free verse is like playing tennis with the net down.

So was I once myself a swinger of birches. And so I dream of going back to be.

One could do worse than be a swinger of birches.

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)

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