Quotes about Imagination

A great city is the place to escape the true drama of provincial life, and find solace in fantasy.

I feel that my life and therefore my writing accept the possibility of all the mystery. Everything we don't know; everything that can possibly happen.

An artist cannot speak about his art any more than a plant can discuss horticulture

These my sky-robes, spun out of Iris' woof.

A thousand fantasies begin to throng into my memory, of calling shapes, and beck'ning shadows dire, and airy tongues that syllable men's names on sands and shores and desert wildernesses.

He knew himself to sing, and build the lofty rhyme.

Me thought I saw my late espoused saint brought to me like Alcestis from the grave.

What never yet was heard in tale or song, from old or modern bard, in hall or bower.

But we also need stories. Great stories.

Imagination is the faculty of the mind that God has given us to make the communication of his beauty beautiful.

True worshipers will worship the Father in spirit and truth" (John 4:23). Truth matters. There is no real worship without it. Intense affections for God, when we do not know God, are not truly affection for God. They are affections for a distortion of God in our imagination.

Indeed, if we consider the unblushing promises of reward and the staggering nature of the rewards promised in the Gospels, it would seem that Our Lord finds our desires not too strong, but too weak. We are half-hearted creatures, fooling about with drink and sex and ambition when infinite joy is offered us, like an ignorant child who wants to go on making mud pies in a slum because he cannot imagine what is meant by the offer of a holiday at the sea. We are far too easily pleased.