290 Quotes About Imagery
- Author Orhan Pamuk
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By then I’d already learned that thoughts sometimes come to us in words, and sometimes in images. There were some thoughts - such as a memory of running under the pouring rain, and how it felt - that I couldn’t even begin to put into words … Yet their image was clear in my mind. And there were other things that I could describe in words but were otherwise impossible to visualize: black light, my mother’s death, infinity.
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- Author Sappho
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]Sardisoften turning her thoughts here]you like a goddessand in your song most of all she rejoiced.But now she is conspicuous among Lydian womenas sometimes at sunsetthe rosyfingered moonsurpasses all the stars. And her lightstretches over salt seaequally and flowerdeep fields.And the beautiful dew is poured outand roses bloom and frailchervil and flowering sweetclover.But she goes back and forth rememberinggentle Atthis and in longingshe bites her tender mind
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- Author Ruth Stone
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Strange imagined shapes of things,wild distortions of the familiar,like the galaxies, pinpoints,of the imagined; untilthe polished multiple eyesof lofted telescopes —while buffeted by cosmic dustand plasma —passed down bit by bitthe great glass marble of the universe.
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- Author Laura Kasischke
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and a tablein a kitchenat whichthe nightingales feasted on fairy tales,the angels stuffed themselves with fog
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- Author Ruth Stone
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The most beautiful videoscome from reading poetry.And they're in your head.
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- Author F. Scott Fitzgerald
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So when the blue smoke of brittle leaves was in the air and the wind blew the wet laundry stiff on the line I decided to come back home.
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- Author T.F. Hodge
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Depression, which lives below the horizon, is the result of painting and entertaining negative imagery - most of which has not taken place in reality. Get up, move, and appreciate that which is given. What is lacking is usually material and heavily influenced by external forces. Don't play yourself, save yourself.
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- Author Richelle E. Goodrich
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As a writer, I see the saga of your life in a single glimpse. It may be inaccurate, but my version doesn't lack for creativity.
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- Author St. Augustine
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The world is a book and those who do not travel read only one page.
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