Quotes about Imagination

When we dream with God, we become the masterpieces of His imagination.

by yielding to His will by dipping into the stream. My concern has little to do with anyone agreeing with me on the subject of sovereignty. My concern is that we will miss the heart of God for His people, for He is much more extravagant in His will for us than we have an imagination to capture. The bottom line is that many wait for Him to act. And oftentimes it is He who is waiting for us. We must learn to respond to what He's given us with acts of faith.

I hope to build a reputation as a science-fiction writer. That's the pitch. We'll see.

A writer of fiction is really... a congenital liar who invents from his own knowledge or that of other men.

Billy Collins writes lovely poems. Limpid, gently and consistently startling, more serious than they seem, they describe all the worlds that are and were and some others besides.

its earliest form, a spontaneous and instinctive endeavor to shape the facts of the world to meet the needs of the imagination, the cravings of the heart.

imagination, and as the frontiers of knowledge are pushed still further away from the obvious and familiar, there will be an increasing tax on the imagination. The world of dead matter which our fathers thought they understood has become a world of subtle forces moving with inconceivable velocity; nothing is inert, all things are transformed into other and more elusive shapes precisely as the makers of the fairy tales foresaw and

Art is a step from what is obvious and well-known toward what is arcane and concealed.

When we read we are able to travel to many places, meet many people and understand the world.

The best travel is that which one can take by one's own fireside. In memory or imagination.

That's the place to get to—nowhere. One wants to wander away from the world's somewheres, into our own nowhere.

Every man has a different idea of what's beautiful, and it's best to take the gesture, the shadow of the branch, and let the mind create the tree.