What his imagination is to the poet, facts are to the…

A scientist is no more a collector and classifier of facts than a historian is a man who complies and classifies a chronology of…

— Peter Medawar

Imagination in a poet is a faculty so wild and lawless that, like a high ranging spaniel, it must have clogs tied to it,…

— John Dryden

It was not the purpose of poetry to record anything and everything, to merely describe either the outer world or some subjective mood, but…

— Kathleen Raine

“How can you take such a risk? This could mean anything! It could mean nothing at all! Haven’t you heard of fiction? This might…

— Jason Ellis

We all know here that the law is the most powerful of schools for the imagination. No poet ever interpreted nature as freely as…

— Jean Giraudoux

It is through the intentionality of poetic imagination that the poet's soul discovers the opening of consciousness common to all true poetry.

— Gaston Bachelard

If power corrupts, weakness in the seat of power, with its constant necessity of deals and bribes and compromising arrangements,corrupts even more.

— Barbara Tuchman

In America, where the electoral process is drowning in commercial techniques of fund-raising and image-making, we may have completed a circle back to a…

— Barbara Tuchman

Marriage must cease to be a matter of arrangement made by parents for money.

— Mahatma Gandhi

The Beatles have a deeper appreciation of all music. There's a humor, there's a Broadway sense, and later on, the Indian stuff came in.…

— Jimmy Vivino

Conservatism defends those coercive arrangements which a still-lingering savageness makes requisite. Radicalism endeavours to realize a state more in harmony with the character of…

— Herbert Spencer

Future lawyers should be more aware that law is not a system of abstract logic, but the web of arrangements, rooted in history but…

— Felix Frankfurter

If you are any competent musician, if you have creative ideas, ideas of songs, of arrangements, in a band like the Stones, where these…

— Bill Wyman

Order is a prerequisite of survival; therefore the impulse to produce orderly arrangements is inbred by evolution.

— Rudolf Arnheim

for the obvious reason that nature - unadulterated and unimproved by man - is simply chaos. In fact, the camera proves that nature is…

— Edward Weston