Quotes by Imagination In this disintegrative, technologically-manic time, when public language is so debased, poetry continues to matter because it's the art that reintegrates words, speech, voice, breath, music, bodily tempo, and the powers of the imagination. Adrienne Rich voice imagination art If the imagination is to transcend and transform experience it has to question, to challenge, to conceive of alternatives, perhaps to the very life you are living at the moment. Adrienne Rich alternatives imagination challenges War is an absolute failure of imagination, scientific and political. Adrienne Rich political imagination war Despair, when not the response to absolute physical and moral defeat is, like war, the failure of imagination. Adrienne Rich confusion imagination war But nothing less than the most radical imagination will carry us beyond this place, beyond the mere struggle for survival, to that lucid recognition of our possibilities which will keep us impatient, and unresigned to mere survival. Adrienne Rich survival imagination struggle Over many years so many poets have touched my imagination and opened paths for me - it hardly makes sense to list them. I have always read a great deal of poetry. Adrienne Rich imagination path years You gave too much rein to your imagination. Imagination is a good servant, and a bad master. The simplest explanation is always the most likely. Agatha Christie elegance too-much imagination Imagination is a good servant, and a bad master. Agatha Christie servant masters imagination A woman who doesn't lie is a woman without imagination and without sympathy. Agatha Christie imagination lying Much that we read of Russia is imagination and desire only. Agnes Smedley russia imagination desire Can art be completely invented? It's a matter of shaping reality with the help of imagination. Aharon Appelfeld imagination reality art When we had to do book reports, I would pick a book that no one read and just make it up and turn that in. I got praised for my imagination. Ahmet Zappa turns imagination book Creativity is the power to reject the past, to change the status quo, and to seek new potential. Simply put, aside from using one's imagination - perhaps more importantly - creativity is the power to act. Ai Weiwei creativity imagination past I grew up in a desert, which has no kind of imagination. Ai Weiwei desert kind imagination Let her love God as He is in Himself, and not as her imagination says He is, and pictures Him. Aiden Wilson Tozer god-love imagination It is the power of memory that gives rise to the power of imagination. Akira Kurosawa imagination giving memories I do not stick to rules when cooking. I rely on my imagination. Akshay Kumar cooking sticks imagination Despite the hundreds of attempts, police terror and the concentration camps have proved to be more or less impossible subjects for the artist; since what happened in them was beyond the imagination, it was therefore also beyond art and all those human values on which art is traditionally based. Al Alvarez police imagination art Our world faces a true planetary emergency. I know the phrase sounds shrill, and I know it's a challenge to the moral imagination. Al Gore our-world imagination challenges Our democracy, our constitutional framework is really a kind of software for harnessing the creativity and political imagination for all of our people. The American democratic system was an early political version of Napster. Al Gore creativity imagination people «1234567891011»