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 is man's power over nature."
Wallace Stevens
"The visible world is no longer a reality and the unseen world is no longer a dream."
Wallace Stevens
"Nothing exists without imagination."
Wallace Stevens
"Reality is a function of the imagination."
Wallace Stevens
"The real world is for us invisible."
Wallace Stevens
"The imagination creates the world anew each moment."
Wallace Stevens
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"I live for the moment when life surprises me."
Jack Kerouac
"Imagination as present conflict between competing principles."
Marianne Moore
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"I have touched the reaches of human consciousness."
Hart Crane
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"The imagination is the only truly free territory."
Hart Crane
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"The imagination imagines that it imagines."
Hilda Doolittle
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"Imagination transcends reality."
Hilda Doolittle
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"The real world exists in the mind."
Hilda Doolittle
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"Imagination is the gateway to worlds unknown."
Hilda Doolittle
"There is this thing called imagination that we all have."
Kurt Vonnegut
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"Imagination is the complement of dispossessed reality."
William Carlos Williams
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"Only the imagination is real."
William Carlos Williams
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"The imagination creates worlds."
William Carlos Williams
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"The imagination is the only reality we can truly claim as our own."
Hart Crane
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"The world is a hallucination, so act accordingly."
Allen Ginsberg
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"My mind is made up of comets spinning in the void."
Allen Ginsberg
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"Imagination is the only capital that matters."
Allen Ginsberg
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"Imagination is the bridge between worlds."
Allen Ginsberg
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"I am forever seeking that which transcends the ordinary."
Hilda Doolittle
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"Imagination is the gateway to infinite possibility."
Hilda Doolittle
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"We become what we repeatedly imagine."
Hilda Doolittle
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"Every moment contains infinite possibility."
Hilda Doolittle
"Imaginary gardens with real toads in them."
Marianne Moore
"The imagination is man's power over nature."
Wallace Stevens
"The absence of imagination had itself to be imagined."
Wallace Stevens