When we were that young we invented the world, no one could tell us a thing.

Without an imagination we would be irreparably shackled to what is, and never be released to what could be.

It is the starved imagination, not the well-nourished, that is afraid.

To dream of afar, to chase a star, to believe in Captain Hook. To dance with bears and have no cares, this is the magic of a book.

There was a time when that kind of thing looked like the kingdom of heaven, but somewhere along the line it had lost its glow. Maybe that was just the cost of growing up. And...

Imagination should be used, not to escape reality, but to create it.

Your imagination is the vehicle to enlightenment.

The main reason why God gave us imaginations is to allow us to have a specific power that can help us make realistic decisions.

my imagination persisted in sticking horrors into the dark- so I stuck my imagination into the dark instead, and let it look out at me.

Reality is the place we need to live, but our imaginations harbor the greatest places to visit!

Sympathy is the child of imagination

Without leaps of imagination or dreaming, we lose the excitement of possibilities. Dreaming, after all is a form of planning.

The present is not so glorious but that I should wish to dwell a little in the past.

Then perhaps you shouldn’t sleep. The imagination has terrifying power.

I lay down and started to feel a little depressed about prom. I refused to feel any kind of sadness over the fact that I wasn’t going to prom, but I had – stupidly, embarrassingly...

This moment is spectacular!

The characters within a book were, from a certain point of view, identical on some fundamental level ‒ there weren’t any images of them, no physical tangibility whatsoever. They were pictures in the reader’s head,...

Live each day to the fullness, live the life that you imagine.

When God broke his deal with me, I turned to the Devil. In the end, I wasn’t happy. I realized that the imagination of a perfect being was more limited than that of the imperfect...

I could burn this place downAs many times as I’d like in my mind,Without any sympathy For the girl or her motherWho live beneath me

Step inside your favorite storybook and become lost in a journey only your imagination can envision.

Let’s pursue the visage of imagination

I want to get lost in other worlds and let my imagination travel beyond this life I know.

What good is having an imagination if you don’t use it?

Every Anglophile has his own private England which is, of course, unrecognizable to the English.

In imagination she sailed over storied seas that wash the distant shining shores of “faëry lands forlorn,” where lost Atlantis and Elysium lie, with the evening star for pilot, to the land of Heart’s Desire....

I am imagination. I can see what the eyes cannot see. I can hear what the ears cannot hear. I can feel what the heart cannot feel

His (Samuel Coleridge) dark senses were constantly in play, the frustration of them bringing illness. Weather and organic nature combined in a synaesthetic multi-media event, and this was the ground of all perception before it...

To enter a theatre for a performance is to be inducted into a magical space, to be ushered into the sacred arena of the imagination.

Paranoia. The more you think of an imaginary problem, the more you feel as though it’s real –

Our memory fragments don’t have any coherence until they’re imagined in words. Time is a property of language, of syntax, and tense.

Such is life, imaginary or otherwise: a continuous parting of ways, a constant flux of approximation and distanciation, lines of fate intersecting at a point which is no-time, a theoretical crossroads fictitiously ‘present,’ an unstable...

The writer must have a good imagination to begin with, but the imagination has to be muscular, which means it must be exercised in a disciplined way, day in and day out, by writing, failing,...

And with distance in time it is the same as with distance in place. The imagination has its atmosphere and its sunlight as well as the earth has; only its mists are even more gorgeous...

I begin by imagining The impossibleAnd end by accomplishingThe impossible.

There is the strange power we have of changing facts by the force of the imagination.

If your imaginary friends are at all like mine, they’re better off dead.

…And yet a knowledgeis here that tenses the throatas for song: the inheritanceof the ones, alive or oncealive, who stand behindthe ones I have imagined,who took into their mindsthe troubles of this place,blights of love...

Pray GOD by HEART, Not by HABIT.

Two powerful factors which creates difference between destroying your relationship and deepening it are EGO and Attitude

The (children’s) book is a specimen of the most scandalous escapism: it paints a happiness under incompatible conditions – the sort of freedom we can have only in childhood and the sort we can have...

Imagination must constantly run on a new track or it becomes lifeless. A living imagination is essential to prayer.

A person can perhaps trust his eyes only to the amount of truth his heart does not mind to speak openly to the people to touch their souls in this selfish world full of lies.

To love a swamp, however, is to love what is muted and marginal, what exists in the shadows, what shoulders its way out of mud and scurries along the damp edges of what is most...

as a child i used to complain to my father about not having toys and he would say (calvero points at his own head) this is the greatest toy ever created. Here lies the secret...

Artistry is the dance of color & form, whether visual, musical, or sparked in the imagination by the written word.

The most wonderful and the strongest things in the world, you know, are just the things which no one can see.

In my mind, Martha, you are buried in cement right up to your neck. No… right up to your nose… that’s much quieter.

A child’s imaginary playmate just might actually be there.

The fantastic postulates that there are forces in the outside world, and in our own natures, which we can neither know nor control, and these forces may even constitute the essence of our existence, beneath...