Quotes about Imagination
New arts are long in the world before poets describe them; for they borrow everything from their predecessors, and commonly derive very little from nature or from life.
— Samuel Johnson
The most pathetic person in the world is someone who has sight, but has no vision.
— Helen Keller
Make thought a whirlwind.
— Victor Hugo
It's fun to invent systems and meanings and then poke holes in them.
— Marty Rubin
The wheat field has ...poetry; it is like a memory of something one has once seen. We can only make our pictures speak.
— Vincent Van Gogh
We are surrounded by poetry on all sides.
— Vincent Van Gogh
But it isn't easy,' said Pooh. 'Because Poetry and Hums aren't things which you get, they're things which get you. And all you can do is to go where they can find you.
— AA Milne
The essence of poetry is invention; such invention as, by producing something unexpected, surprises and delights.
— Samuel Johnson
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