Quotes about Imagination
Ever been kidnapped by a poet if i were a poet i'd kidnap you put you in my phrases and meter.
— Nikki Giovanni
Writing poetry is a state of free float.
— Margaret Atwood
Poetry is the gate through which I enter the land of enchantment. Once inside the flaming wall, my limitations fall from me, and my spirit is free.
— Helen Keller
How poetry comes to the poet is a mystery.
— John Lennon
Who would not spout the family teapot in order to talk with Keats for an hour about poetry, or with Jane Austen about the art of fiction?
— Virginia Woolf
Democritus maintains that there can be no great poet without a spite of madness.
— Cicero
Why then we should drop into poetry.
— Charles Dickens
Poetry must be as new as foam, and as old as the rock.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
The poet is the sayer, the namer, and represents beauty.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
O that our dreamings all, of sleep or wake, Would all their colours from the sunset take.
— John Keats
It is Homer who has chiefly taught other poets the art of telling lies skilfully.
— Aristotle
The most reliable way to predict the future is to create it.
— Abraham Lincoln