There is a boundary to mens passions when they act from feelings but none when they are under the influence of imagination. – Edmund Burke
Trust that little voice in your head that says Wouldnt it be interesting if… And then do it. – Duane Michals
You have to imagine it possible before you can see something. You can have the evidence right in front of you, but if you cant imagine something that has never existed before, its impossible. – Rita Dove
I never did very well in math – I could never seem to persuade the teacher that I hadnt meant my answers literally. – Calvin Trillin
The imagination is mans power over nature. – Wallace Stevens
I am certain of nothing but the holiness of the hearts affections, and the truth of imagination. – John Keats
A ladys imagination is very rapid it jumps from admiration to love, from love to matrimony in a moment. – Jane Austen
There is nothing heavier than compassion. Not even ones own pain weighs so heavy as the pain one feels for someone, for someone, pain intensified by the imagination and prolonged by a hundred echos. – Milan Kundera
Wherever you write is supposed to be a little bit of a refuge, a place where you can get away from the world. The more closed in you are, the more youre forced back on your own imagination. – Stephen King
The woman who appeals to a mans vanity may stimulate him, the woman who appeals to his heart may attract him, but it is the woman who appeals to his imagination who gets him. – Helen Rowland
Were living in a time when the world has suddenly discovered India because its run out of raw material for its imagination. The raw materials for imagination are inexhaustible here. – Deepak Chopra
A poet ought not to pick natures pocket. Let him borrow, and so borrow as to repay by the very act of borrowing. Examine nature accurately, but write from recollection, and trust more to the imagination than the memory. – Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Don Quixotes misfortune is not his imagination, but Sancho Panza. – Franz Kafka
The degree in which a poets imagination dominates reality is, in the end, the exact measure of his importance and dignity. – George Santayana
Classical plays require more imagination and more general training to be able to do. Thats why I like playing Shakespeare better than anything else. – Vivien Leigh
It is all very well to copy what one sees, but it is far better to draw what one now only sees in ones memory. That is a transformation in which imagination collaborates with memory. – Edgar Degas
Growing up, I didnt have a lot of toys, and personal entertainment depended on individual ingenuity and imagination – think up a story and go live it for an afternoon. – Terry Brooks
Never lose sight of the fact that all human felicity lies in mans imagination, and that he cannot think to attain it unless he heeds all his caprices. The most fortunate of persons is he who has the most means to satisfy his vagaries. – Marquis de Sade
Ive always felt that what I have going for me is not my imagination, because everyone has an imagination. What I have is a relentlessly controlled imagination. What looks like wild invention is actually quite carefully calculated. – Terry Pratchett
But if I have a lot of imagination, I could tell myself whatever I wanted, you know. I handle myself quite well. Im kind of fascist with myself, you know. Theres no discussion. There is an order. You follow it. – Karl Lagerfeld
