Quotes about Imagination

Every spirit builds itself a house; and beyond its house, a world; and beyond its world a heaven. Know then, that the world exists for you: build, therefore, your own world.

When I read a good book, I wish my life were three thousand years long.

A person will worship something, have no doubt about that. We may think our tribute is paid in secret in the dark recesses of our hearts, but it will come out. That which dominates our imaginations and our thoughts will determine our lives, and our character. Therefore, it behooves us to be careful what we worship, for what we are worshipping, we are becoming.

Imagination is a very high sort of seeing.

Always the seer is a sayer. Somehow his dream is told; somehow he publishes it with solemn joy: sometimes with pencil on canvas, sometimes with chisel on stone, sometimes in towers and aisles of granite, his soul's worship is builded; sometimes in anthems of indefinite music, but clearest and most permanent, in words.

He will perceive that there are far more excellent qualities in the student than preciseness and infallibility; that a guess is often more fruitful than an indisputable affirmation, and that a dream may let us deeper into the secret of nature than a hundred concerted experiments

The maker of a sentence launches out into the infinite and builds a road into Chaos and old Night, and is followed by those who hear him with something of wild, creative delight.

Every spirit builds itself a house; and beyond its house a world; and beyond its world, a heaven.

Each is liable to panic, which is, exactly, the terror of ignorance surrendered to the imagination.

In every work of genius we recognize our own rejected thoughts.

There is a property in the horizon which no man has but he whose eye can integrate all parts, that is, the poet.

America is a poem in our eyes; its ample geography dazzles the imagination, and it will not wait long for metres.