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 pressure of reality constantly affects our imagination."
Wallace Stevens
"Imagination extends only so far as we can think."
Wallace Stevens
"In the end, the mind composes what the eye has already seen."
Wallace Stevens
"The imagination desires beyond the known facts."
Wallace Stevens
"We invent the world through our perceptions of it."
Wallace Stevens
"The imagination is the instrument that measures our growth."
Wallace Stevens
"The world as imagined is more real than the world as given."
Wallace Stevens
"The imagination is the eye of the soul."
Wallace Stevens
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"Imagination is the only truth."
Jack Kerouac
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"Imagination is a very high sort of thing."
Amy Lowell
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"Imagination is more important than knowledge."
Amy Lowell
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"The imagination is the key to understanding reality."
William Carlos Williams
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"Each moment contains the possibility of discovery."
William Carlos Williams
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"The imagination can reshape the world we inhabit."
William Carlos Williams
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"Imagination is the bridge between what is and what could be."
William Carlos Williams
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"The imagination transcends the merely literal."
Hart Crane
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"The imagination can leap where logic must crawl."
Hart Crane
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"The imagination is the bridge between the known and unknown."
Hart Crane
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"The imagination transcends the limitations of time and space."
Hart Crane
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"We become what we contemplate."
Hilda Doolittle
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"Memory and imagination are closer cousins than we think."
Hilda Doolittle
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"The future belongs to those who can imagine it."
Hilda Doolittle
"The world is not what we think it is; it is what we imagine it to be."
Wallace Stevens
"Imagination is the gateway to infinite possibility."
Wallace Stevens
"Imagination is more important than knowledge."
Fannie Hurst
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"I have a little shadow that goes in and out with me."
Edna St. Vincent Millay
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"The mind's eye sees what the heart desires."
Edna St. Vincent Millay
"The little prince would eat a sheep if he found one."
Marianne Moore
"The mind cannot create what it has not conceived."
Marianne Moore
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"The imagination is the only thing that can cure the mind's restlessness."
William Carlos Williams