Poetry and imagination begin life. A child will fall on…

“Dickens' plots are his most discardable properties, and often have to be pushed aside to let the strange poetry of his imagination emerge.”

— John Carey

Experiment is the only means of knowledge at our disposal. Everything else is poetry, imagination.

— Max Planck

Sentiment is the poetry of the imagination.

— Alphonse de Lamartine

By going over your day in imagination before you begin it, you can begin acting successfully at any moment.

— Dorothea Brande

“The writer must have a good imagination to begin with, but the imagination has to be muscular, which means it must be exercised in…

— Stephen King

The writer must have a good imagination to begin with, but the imagination has to be muscular, which means it must be exercised in…

— Stephen King

Where knowledge ends... feeling and imagination begin.

— Neville Goddard

That's a very nice compliment, for somebody to be described as having grit, having some gravel in the gut.

— Jim Harbaugh

This industry can take you in and spit you out. It's overwhelming. But I keep my feet on the ground, my Air Max on…

— Barry Keoghan

With Iraq plunging into chaos and gas prices at record highs President Bush took time out this weekend for a ride on his bicycle,…

— Craig Kilborn

My love, do you recall the object which we saw, That fair, sweet, summer morn! At a turn in the path a foul carcass…

— Charles Baudelaire

The picture of Mother Teresa that I remember from my childhood is of a short, sari-wearing woman scurrying down a red gravel path between…

— Bharati Mukherjee

If I know a song of Africa, of the giraffe and the African new moon lying on her back, of the plows in the…

— Isak Dinesen

Give me some mud off a city crossing, some ochre out of a gravel pit and a little whitening and some coal dust and…

— John Ruskin

There's something Zen-like about the way I work - it's like raking gravel in a Zen Buddhist garden.

— Chuck Close