Quotes about Imagination

My mother was always fascinated with the fact that I could rhyme so much stuff.

Genius is a promontory jutting out of the infinite.

There is nothing like dream to create the future. Utopia to-day, flesh and blood tomorrow.

Reason is intelligence taking exercise. Imagination is intelligence with an erection.

Every thoughtful pin on pinterest has beauty. But not everyone can see.

Poems don't have to rhyme... Poems are about beauty and emotion; in other words poems are about feelings.

This round of green, this orb of flame, Fantastic beauty; such as lurks In some wild poet, when he works Without a conscience or an aim.

When I was younger I could remember anything, whether it happened or not.

My faculties are decaying now and soon I shall be so I cannot remember any but the things that never happened.

The eye of the poet sees less clearly, but sees farther than the eye of the scientist.

Man's soul has three powers, and God left him prophets for all three: Jewish moralists for his will, Greek philosophers for his mind, and pagan mythmakers for his heart and imagination and feelings. Of course, the latter two are not infallible.

It is tempting to remain in the comfortable theater of the imagination instead of the real world, to fall in love with the idea of becoming a saint and loving God and neighbor instead of doing the actual work, because the idea makes no demands on you.