Quotes about Imagination
I would observe to you that what is called style in writing or speaking is formed very early in life while the imagination is warm, and impressions are permanent.
- Thomas Jefferson
The reason our souls hunger so is that the life we could be living so far exceeds our strangest dreams.
- John Ortberg
In acting, you have to pull from real-life situations, from people, to help develop a character.
- Kevin Hart
The function of the artist is to make people like life better than they have before.
- Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
Charles Lutwidge Dodgson's life in space-time colored his liberated life of the imagination.
- Lewis Carroll
Charles Lutwidge Dodgson's life in space-time colored his liberated life of the imagination.
- Lewis Carroll
The beginning of our happiness lies in the understanding that life without wonder is not worth living. What we lack is not a will to believe but a will to wonder.
- Madeleine L'Engle
With each book I write, I become more and more convinced that the books have a life of their own, quite apart from me.
- Madeleine L'Engle
Let the mad poets say whate'er they pleaseOf the sweets of Fairies, Peris, Goddesses,Haunters of cavern, lake, and waterfall,As a real woman, lineal indeedFrom Pyrrha's pebbles or old Adam's seed.
- John Keats
O for ten years, that I may overwhelmMyself in poesy; so I may do the deedThat my own soul has to itself decreed.
- John Keats
Poetry should... should strike the reader as a wording of his own highest thoughts, and appear almost a remembrance.
- John Keats
Poetry should be great and unobtrusive, a thing which enters into one's soul, and does not startle it or amaze it with itself, but with its subject.
- John Keats