3,418 Quotes About Imagination

Our dreams prove that to imagine - to dream about things that have not happened - is among mankind's deepest needs.

No amount of skillful invention can replace the essential element of imagination.

My books, my paradise!

Formerly I believed books were made like this: a poet came, lightly opened his lips, and the inspired fool burst into song – if you please! But it seems, before they can launch a song, poets must tramp for days with callused feet, and the sluggish fish of the imagination flounders softly in the slush of the heart. And while, with twittering rhymes, they boil a broth of loves and nightingales, the tongueless street merely writhes for lack of something to shout or say

Women show men beauty in things beyond their ambitions. Women tell men to stop and smell the roses.

Además no es tan malo vivir solo. Yo la paso bien, decidiendo a cada instante lo que quiero hacer, y gracias a la soledad me conozco; algo fundamental para vivir

(speaking of Ann Radcliffe) A work of art worthy of the name is one which gives us back the freshness of the emotions of childhood.

Reading stimulates the imagination and a good imagination can change the world in the most splendid of ways.

Imagination is the parallel universe of a writer. If he is not responding to you in this world, he is probably responding to someone in the imaginary world.