Quotes about Imagination
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
Who would not spout the family teapot in order to talk with Keats for an hour about poetry, or with Jane Austen about the art of fiction?
- Virginia Woolf
Democritus maintains that there can be no great poet without a spite of madness.
- Cicero
Why then we should drop into poetry.
- Charles Dickens
Poetry must be as new as foam, and as old as the rock.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson