Imagination Quote by Donald Revell

“The poet is a light and winged and holy thing, and there is no invention in him until he has been inspired and is…

— Plato

“Poetry is the perpetual endeavor to express the spirit of the thing, to pass the brute body and search the life and reason which…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

“And when we describe it as I shall do, it becomes plain that imagination is a specifically human gift. To imagine is the characteristic…

— Jacob Bronowski

“Poetry is not a luxury. It is a vital necessity for our existence. It forms the quality of light from which we predicate our…

— Audre Lorde

Craft is a trick you make up to let you write the poem.

— Anne Sexton

“Real poetry is art at its purest sense. It is never a commodity, but a breath of eternity.”

— Subhan Zein

“Poetry is a painting of the imaginations of the human mind, but the reader needs to feel it and touch it.”

— Adewale Joel

“Ah! poetry makes life what light and music do the stage—strip the one of the false embellishments, and the other of its illusions, and…

— Charles Dickens

“In poetry magic & science must co-exist. They must creatively interact to create a new poetry of artistic transformation.”

— the mag man

“. . . poetry, like all imaginative creations, divines the human enterprise. This is poetry's social value.”

— Major Jackson

“Poetry was not meant to be a workhorse; it was not designed to paint pretty moral pictures of life; it was not brought into…

— Francis Beauchesne Thornton

Poetry is not like reasoning, a power to be exerted according to the determination of the will. A man cannot say, 'I will compose…

— Percy Bysshe Shelley