“A long poem is a test of invention which I take to be the Polar star of poetry, as fancy is the sails, and imagination the rudder.” LongPoetryStarsImaginationTestsInventionFancySailRudders Author:John Keats
“If I could put my hand on the north star, would it be as beautiful? The sea is lovely, but when we bathe in it the beauty forsakesall the near water. For the imagination and senses cannot be gratified at the same time.” IfsHandsBeautifulStarsWaterImaginationSeaLovelySensesIf I CouldNorth Star Book:The Conduct of Life Source: The Conduct of Life
“The greatest experience I've ever had in a movie theater was watching "Star Wars." It shaped how I look at the world. My imagination was so small before I went in that theater and there was an explosion in my head. I just couldn't figure out how someone came up with it.” WorldLooksWarStarsImaginationFiguresTheaterMy ImaginationExplosionsMovie Theater Author:Will Smith
“I love individuals. I think people are terrific as I meet and get to know them. I like imagination. I like the freedom that this society manages to parcel out to us in the midst of the rest of what they do to you. I also like thinking about the fact that the atoms in me are the same atoms that are in all the rest of the universe, and that every one of those atoms came from the middle of a star. In other words, it's only me out there.” PeopleThinkingKnowsFactsUniverseIndividualStarsImaginationMiddleManageMidstAtomsTerrificThis SocietyParcel Author:George Carlin
“My mother was making $135 a week, but she had resilience and imagination. She might take frozen vegetables, cook them with garlic, onion and Spam, and it would taste like a four-star dinner.” MightMotherStarsImaginationFourWeekTasteDinnerResilienceCooksVegetablesFrozenOnionsGarlicSpam Author:Andre Dubus
“The way history is currently taught in schools, jumping from Hitler to the Henrys, is like a nightmare vision of Star Wars, where you have episode four before you have episode one. The sense of going on a journey, of chronology and continuity, is incredibly important to the imagination.” WayImportantWarSchoolStarsImaginationVisionFourJourneyTaughtNightmareEpisodesJumpingContinuityChronology Author:Simon Schama