Quotes by Imagination A poet ought not to pick nature's 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 imaginationwritingmemories avarice is especially, I suppose, a disease of the imagination. Sara Coleridge greeddiseaseimagination Imagination that compares and contrasts with what is around as well as what is better and worse is the living power and prime agent of all human perception judgement and emotional reaction. Samuel Taylor Coleridge gratitudeemotionalimagination The primary notion i hold to be the Living Power. Samuel Taylor Coleridge primariesnotionimagination Words in prose ought to express the intended meaning; if they attract attention to themselves, it is a fault; in the very best styles you read page after page without noticing the medium. Works of imagination should be written in very plain language; the more purely imaginative they are, the more necessary it is to be plain. Samuel Taylor Coleridge plain-languageimaginationwriting Among many parallels which men of imagination have drawn between the natural and moral state of the world, it has been observed that happiness as well as virtue consists in mediocrity. Samuel Johnson mediocrityimaginationmen Finally, good sense is the body of poetic genius, fancy its drapery, motion its life, and imagination the soul that is everywhere and in each; and forms all into one graceful and intelligent whole. Samuel Taylor Coleridge intelligentsoulimagination Books have a vital place in our culture. They are the source of ideas, of stories that engage and stretch the imagination and most importantly, inspire. Sara Sheridan imaginationbookideas Of the present state, whatever it be, we feel and are forced to confess the misery; yet when the same state is again at a distance, imagination paints it as desirable. Samuel Johnson miserydistanceimagination The Beautiful arises from the perceived harmony of an object, whether sight or sound, with the inborn and constitutive rules of the judgment and imagination: and it is always intuitive. Samuel Taylor Coleridge imaginationsightbeautiful Grabbing readers by the imagination is a writer's job. Sara Sheridan readerimaginationjobs A minute analysis of life at once destroys that splendor which dazzles the imagination. Whatsoever grandeur can display, or luxury enjoy, is procured by offices of which the mind shrinks from the contemplation. All the delicacies of the table may be traced back to the shambles and the dunghill; all magnificence of building was hewn from the quarry, and all the pomp of ornament dug from among the damps and darkness of the mine. Samuel Johnson luxuryimaginationlife [T]he judicious reader ought to know what the chief character in any work of the imagination will naturally perform, according to the situation he is thrown into, as well as doth the author himself. Sarah Fielding chiefsimaginationcharacter The loss of liberty which must attend being a wife was of all things the most horrible to my imagination. Sarah Fielding wifeimaginationloss It is only unimaginative persons who can be really astonished. The imagination can always outrun the possible and actual sights and sounds of the world. Sarah Orne Jewett imaginationsightsound Time is, of all modes of existence, most obsequious to the imagination. Samuel Johnson existenceimagination I have friends say, "Don't you want to have a little you?" The jury's still out on that for me. I don't have a definitive answer, but I do know that I can look back on some of the things I've worked on and some of the things that have literally come out of my imagination and be just as proud of it as if I had created a person. I feel like that shouldn't be of any less value. It can't be because it's what my life is, and I don't want to make it smaller or more palatable just because society tells you to. If you can get comfortable with sacrifice, then you are having it all. Sarah Paulson sacrificeproudimagination Imagination is the only true thing in the world! Sarah Orne Jewett true-thingsimaginationworld The imagination is a wonderful thing; it allows for all manner of undiscoverable sins. Sarah Strohmeyer sinimaginationwonderful I talk about going to his [George W. Bush's] Inauguration and crying when he took the oath, 'cause I was so afraid he was going to "wreck the economy and muck up the drinking water"... the failure of my pessimistic imagination at that moment boggles my mind now. Sarah Vowell imaginationdrinkingwater«134135136137138139140141142143144»
