Quotes about Imagination

But this is human life: the war, the deeds, The disappointment, the anxiety, Imagination's struggles, far and nigh, All human; bearing in themselves this good, That they are still the air, the subtle food, To make us feel existence. -Keats, Endymion This is the 'goal' of the soul path — to feel existence; not to overcome life's struggles and anxieties, but to know life first hand, to exist fully in context. (Thomas Moore, Care of the Soul, p.260)

When through the old oak forest I am gone, Let me not wander in a barren dream.

Besides, a long poem is a test of invention, which I take to be the Polar star of Poetry, as Fancy is the sails - and Imagination the rudder.

The imagination of a boy is healthy, and the mature imagination of a man is healthy; but there is a space of life between, in which the soul is in a ferment, the character undecided, the way of life uncertain, the ambition thick-sighted: thence proceeds mawkishness, and all the thousand bitters which those men I speak of must necessarily taste in going over the following pages.

Reporter lady: What's that color? John: Hm. I'd call this a color!

You, you may say I'm a dreamer, but I'm not the only one.

Imagine no possessions, I wonder if you can.

The mind is a universe and can make a heaven of hell, a hell of heaven.

All there is to writing is having ideas. To learn to write is to learn to have ideas.

You must feed your mind with reading material, thoughts, and ideas that open you to new possibilities.

Creative experience foreshadows a new Heaven and a new Earth.

Faith is the determination to create with our lives what only our hearts can conceive.