Imagination Quotes
The ability to see what isn't there yet. Dreamers and builders on the power of 'what if.'
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"The imagination transforms suffering into meaning."Elsa Morante
"We live in the stories we tell ourselves."Cesare Pavese
"The future belongs to those who can imagine it most vividly."Pier Paolo Pasolini
"Imagination is the only freedom that cannot be taken away."Pier Paolo Pasolini
"We must learn to see the world as children do—with wonder and without prejudice."Elio Vittorini
"Imagination is the only weapon that tyranny truly fears."Elio Vittorini
"One must maintain one's curiosity until the end."Primo Levi
"The world needs dreamers more than it needs realists."Dino Buzzati
"Imagination is the bridge between what is and what could be."Dino Buzzati
"Imagination is the only weapon against the monotony of existence."Italo Svevo
"The imagination is humanity's greatest tool for understanding itself."Elsa Morante
"Narrative is a kind of play that children do by themselves."Umberto Eco
"Imagination is the beginning of creation."Umberto Eco
"Imagination is more important than knowledge."Umberto Eco
"The imagination is the last territory the powerful cannot fully colonize."Pier Paolo Pasolini
"The imagination can travel where the body cannot."Primo Levi
"The invisible city is the one that cannot be forgotten."Italo Calvino
"The catalog of forms is endless; until every figure has found its city, new cities will continue to be discovered."Italo Calvino
"The task of literature is to think of what never has been thought before."Italo Calvino
"In the space of the mind, there is no distance."Italo Calvino
"Imagination is memory without fidelity."Italo Calvino
"The world is a combination of possible worlds."Italo Calvino
"Every city contains the seed of all possible cities."Italo Calvino
"Cities are alive in the descriptions we make of them."Italo Calvino
"The story continues in the reader's imagination."Italo Calvino
"The invisible is more real than the visible."Italo Calvino
"The city exists in the spaces between buildings."Italo Calvino
"Cities are dreams that people dreamed into being."Italo Calvino
"The imagination is the only space where the powerless can truly reign."Elsa Morante
"Imagination is the refuge of the desperate"Italo Svevo