Emotion Quote by John Dryden

To imagine is the characteristic act, not of the poet's mind, or the painter's, or the scientist's, but of the mind of man.

— Jacob Bronowski

Imagination is the supreme endowment of the poet and romanticist. It is a kind of second sight, which conveys the owner of it to…

— Marie Corelli

“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

Imagination in poetry, as distinguished from mere fancy is the transfiguring of the real or actual to the ideal.

— Alfred Austin

Poetry is that art which selects and arranges the symbols of thought in such a manner as to excite the imagination the most powerfully…

— William C. Bryant

Imagination is the eye of the soul.

— Joseph Joubert

The poet, described in ideal perfection, brings the whole soul of man into activity, with the subordination of its faculties to each other according…

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

When a poet's mind is perfectly equipped for its work, it is constantly amalgamating disparate experiences.

— Anonymous

Much of a poet's experience takes place in imagination only; the life he tells is oftenest the life that he strongly desires to live,…

— George Edward Woodberry

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

Imagination is the means of deep insight and sympathy, the power to conceive and express images removed from normal objective reality.

— William Wordsworth

Thinking in prose is different. I gained an immense amount of respect for people who write prose, and also felt even more sure that…

— Matthew Zapruder