Quotes about Imagination

Poetry is the art of uniting pleasure with truth, by calling imagination to the help of reason.

In childhood all books are books of divination, telling us about the future, and like the fortune-teller who sees a long journey in the cards or death by water they influence the future. I suppose that is why books excited us so much. What do we ever get nowadays from reading to equal the excitement and the revelation in those first fourteen years?

Hate is a lack of imagination.

Concepts create idols; only wonder grasps anything.

True poets lead no one unawares. It is nothing other than awareness that poets-that is, creators of all sorts-seek. They do not display their art so as to make it appear real; they display the real in a way that reveals it to be art.

An actor should be able to create the universe in the palm of his hand.

I think we're [men and women] more similar. In that we all deal with our fantasy lives and sometimes are disappointed by reality.

For God, nothing is impossible. And, if he wanted, in the future women would give birth from their ears.

They would say well there's always been wars, men have always beaten women. But it isn't true in all cultures. It doesn't have to be true. And the first step is imaging.

If the storm forgets to bring a rainbow, paint your own.

If the sky was the limit, stars would not light our way to the edge of the universe.

I think when I was 12, I started reading Evelyn Waugh, and I loved Evelyn Waugh so much, and I thought: 'This is how the world really is. If I could be Evelyn Waugh, then I would be happy.'