Keats mourned that the rainbow, which as a boy had been for him a magic thing, had lost its glory because the physicists had found it resulted merely from the refraction of the sunlight by...

In order to survive, a plurality of true communities would require not egalitarianism and tolerance but knowledge, an understanding of the necessity of local differences, and respect. Respect, I think, always implies imagination – the...

I always believe it’s better to have 30 imaginations working on a project, rather than one imagination telling the other 29 what to do.

Although she was gregarious, she inadvertently separated herself from people because she was so often inside her own head, focusing on her creativity.

The most important principle for self discovery and to taste success is rather than changing other’s attitude changes your own. And always remember same sun which melts the butter also hardens the clay

A wise man is someone who knows how to convert obstacles into resources.

Writing is a combination of intangible creative fantasy and appallingly hard work.

There is a difference between what I actually want and what I want to have fantasies about. (…) There is a part of my imagination which is a playground, a playground in which I am...

A lover exists only in fragments, a dozen or so if the romance is new, a thousand if we’re married to him, and out of those fragments our heart constructs an entire person. What we...

Reality can be very boring.

The definition of a professional is one who does a job well even when they don’t like it.

her daughter”.

When magic through nerves and reason passes, Imagination, force, and passion will thunder. The portrait of the world is changed.

When young, the humans are all Imagination because Memory is so much smaller a part of their experience, so little of them is grounded in it. As they grow older, however, Memory overtakes their Imagination,...

Then my sole relief was to walk along the corridor of the third storey, backwards and forwards, safe in the silence and solitude of the spot, and allow my mind’s eye to dwell on whatever...

Transcendental artists are messengers. Their symbolic vocabulary originates from the infinite wisdom of higher spheres, in a non-referential time/space continuum… the way of the shaman. The presence of glyphs speaks a universal language of the...

It is frightfully difficult to know much about the fairies, and almost the only thing for certain is that there are fairies wherever there are children.

Yes, the house must be inhabited, and we will see by whom; for imagination is a licensed trespasser: it has no fear of dogs, but may climb over walls and peep in at windows with...

I love you,” and I couldn’t even tell if she was 300 miles away, or 6 feet below my feet and 300 years away.

My imagination is something of a badass.

You see, this would be a death by the imagination. And though the imagination feeds on phantoms, it needs a premise in reality to begin with. Then it can go on from there under its...

your brain is wider than the sky

Even our recreation was scheduled. There was no time to look for birds or wander into the nearby woods. We were put into teams and sent into violent pursuit of a helpless ball.

I’m productive. I make things like directions. Mostly I just make things up.

It is inconceivable that any form of intelligence would waste so much time and effort to make such an inferior piece of life—with all the ‘ills that flesh is heir to,’ and with all the...

Public transit situates us so that we are given license to accept what’s right in front of us, but will likely arouse our desire to compare our narrative to someone else’s, to give ourselves permission...

Like most girls, her imagination carried her just as far as the altar and no further.

Your imagination s a wonderland full of realities.

I dwell on endless possibilities.

An imagination is a powerful tool. It can tint memories of the past, shade perceptions of the present, or paint a future so vivid that it can entice… or terrify, all depending upon how we...

My imagination is a monastery and I am its monk.

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

As I see it, life is an effort to grip before they slip through one’s fingers and slide into oblivion, the startling, the ghastly or the blindingly exquisite fish of the imagination before they whip...

The psychology of individual creativity is about at least three different things. First, creativity is about thinking differently. Second, creativity is about feeling differently. Third, creativity is about focusing, or committing, differently.

I think the child I was until 12 was so much more interesting than the teenager I became. As a teenager, you get wrapped up in your friends and sexual stuff, and the imaginative life...

Leaves lift trees.

Imagination makes people oversensitive,vulnerable and exposed. Perhaps it’s a form of degeneracy. I have never held the shortcomings of the unimaginative against them. Sometimes I’ve even envied them: they have an easier and more pleasant...

Literature is where I go to explore the highest and lowest places in human society and in the human spirit, where I hope to find not absolute truth but the truth of the tale, of...

We are raised to honor all the wrong explorers and discoverers – thieves planting flags, murderers carrying crosses. Let us at last praise the colonizers of dreams.

Imagination paints a charming view of the future, conveniently adapted to the demands of our current emotion.

In LA, you think you’re making something up, but it’s making you up.

The tree which moves some to tears of joy is in the eyes of others only a green thing that stands in the way. Some see nature all ridicule and deformity… and some scarce see...

All things are possible until they are proven impossible.

There are no shadows in the Underdark. There is no room for imagination in the Underdark. It is a place for alertness, but not aliveness, a place with no room for hopes and dreams.

It is the imagination that argues for the Divine Spark within human beings. It is literally a decent of the World’s Soul into all of us.

Imagination is Everything!

If it is indeed the business of imagination to make politics distrust itself – reminding it that its principles are not literal facts but constructs of imagination – it is also its business to encourage...

Libraries are sanctuaries from the world and command centers onto it: here in the quiet rooms are the lives of Crazy Horse and Aung San Suu Kyi, the Hundred Years’ War and the Opium Wars...

We are such stuff as dreams are made on, and our little life is rounded with a sleep.

I like the immaterial world. I like to live among thoughts and images of the past and the possible, and even of the impossible, now and then.