Imagination Quote by Richard Hugo Download Open image ““The imagination is a cynic.”” — Richard Hugo ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.2 out of 5 (5 ratings) Copy quoteShare Imagination Pessimism
“There's nothing so magnificent - for making others feel you - as to have no imagination.” — Henry James Copy Share Image
“None of us need ever fear that we don't have an active imagination, because imagination is mostly a willingness to entertain a strange idea… — Bert Dodson Copy Share Image
“there’s too many people in here. If I had my way, I’d have nothing but young chicks, the innocent ones you can teach something.” — Richard Hugo Copy Share Image
I will garden on the double run, my rhythm obvious in the ringing rakes, and trust in fate to keep me poor and kind… — Richard Hugo Copy Share Image
A poet is seldom hard up for advice. The worst part of it all is that sometimes the advice is coming from other poets,… — Richard Hugo Copy Share Image
...an imagined town is at least as real as an actual town. If it isn't, you may be in the wrong business. Our words… — Richard Hugo Copy Share Image
“…I’ve seen the world tell us with wars and real estate developments and bad politics and odd court decisions that our lives don’t matter.… — Richard Hugo Copy Share Image
A creative writing class may be one of the last places you can go where your life still matters. — Richard Hugo Copy Share Image
Maximum sentence length: seventeen words. Minimum:one No semicolons. Semicolons indicate relationships that only idiots need defined by punctuation. Besides, they are ugly. Make sure… — Richard Hugo Copy Share Image
A good creative-writing teacher can save a good writer a lot of time. — Richard Hugo Copy Share Image
“We won’t all disappear on a remote country road in the Monroe Valley, but like The Admiral and his wife we are all going… — Richard Hugo Copy Share Image
“You might come here Sunday on a whim. Say your life broke down. The last good kiss you had was years ago. You walk… — Richard Hugo Copy Share Image
Social responsibility above the level of family, or at most of tribe, requires imagination-- devotion, loyalty, all the higher virtues -- which a man… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
In literature and art memory is a synonym for invention. It is the life-blood of imagination, which faints and dies when the veins are… — Robert Aris Willmott Copy Share Image
A rock pile ceases to be a rock pile the moment a single man contemplates it, bearing within him the image of a cathedral. — Antoine de Saint-Exupery Copy Share Image
Merkel has realized that the euro is not working, but she cannot change the narrative she has created because that narrative has caught the… — George Soros Copy Share Image
Jonah Lehrer is one of the most talented explainers of science that we’ve got. What a pleasure it is to follow his investigation of… — Joshua Foer Copy Share Image
If you've got creativity, imagination, and intelligence, and you want to be hypnotised, then there's no reason you shouldn't be able to. — Keith Barry Copy Share Image
A beard is something that is almost like a mirror to the viewer. When someone sees you wearing a beard, they're seeing something in… — Mohsin Hamid Copy Share Image
While the world of reality has its limits, the world of your imagination is without boundaries — Wayne Dyer Copy Share Image
Edgy is fine - I'm not a prude by any stretch of the imagination - but what's wrong with a good ol' belly laugh?… — Carol Burnett Copy Share Image
