“There is a poem at the heart of things and a mythic story in the heart of each of us. At certain times it is the poetry of life and the mythic imagination of the soul that become necessary in order to heal the wounds inflicted by an excess of reason or an overuse of force.”
Source: The Genius Myth
“In this kind of personal artwork, jettison any idea that you can help yourself or others by interpreting, praising, or criticizing. These kinds of creative pieces and experiences are only for being with. The only helpful response is to nourish the imagination and your piece by associating other images to it and noticing what feelings it evokes in you.”
Source: The Art of Dreaming: Tools for Creative Dream Work
“Do I make up some ‘god’ in my mind, or do I make up my mind to know God?”
“We're on a planet, relax!”
Source: Piddly Poems for Children, v.2
“A child-like mind is full of imagination.”
Source: Thinkingaire: 100 Game Changing Digital Mindsets to Compete for the Future
“... This is a major theme in mathematics: things are what you want them to be. You have endless choices; there is no reality to get in your way.
On the other hand, once you have made your choices then your new creations do what they do, whether you like it or not. This is the amazing thing about making imaginary patterns: they talk back!”
Source: A Mathematician's Lament: How School Cheats Us Out of Our Most Fascinating and Imaginative Art Form
“The exercise of imagination is dangerous to those who profit from the way things are because it has the power to show that the way things are is not permanent, not universal, not necessary. Having that real though limited power to put established institutions into question, imaginative literature has also the responsibility of power. The storyteller is the truthteller.”
Source: The Wave in the Mind: Talks and Essays on the Writer, the Reader and the Imagination
“Everyone’s alone—or so it seems to me.
They make noises, and think they are talking to each other;
They make faces, and think they understand each other,
And I’m sure they don’t. Is that delusion?
Can we only love
Something created in our own imaginations?”
Source: The Cocktail Party
“How a plain horse and wagon on Mulberry Street, Grows into a story that no one can beat”
Source: And to Think That I Saw It on Mulberry Street
“I live in my own head and it all makes sense to me.”