Mary Daly Quotes

None merits the name of Creator but God and the poet.

When a man undertakes to create something, he establishes a new heaven, as it were, and from it the work that he desires to create flows into him... For such is the immensity of man that he is greater than heaven and earth.

The source and center of all man's creative power... is his power of making images, or the power of imagination.

There is an ocean of creativity within every human being.

Imagination is the voice of daring. If there is anything Godlike about God it is that. He dared to imagine everything.

Dreaming is an act of pure imagination, attesting in all men a creative power, which if it were available in waking, would make every man a Dante or Shakespeare.

The poet existed among the cave men; he will exist among men of the atomic age, for he is an inherent part of man. Even religions have been born from the need for poetry, which is a spiritual need, and it is through the grace of poetry that the divine spark lives forever in the human flint.

Every human is an artist. The dream of your life is to make beautiful art.

If God created us in his own image, we have more than reciprocated.

Everybody born comes from the Creator trailing wisps of glory. We come from the Creator with creativity. I think that each one of us is born with creativity.

Art is elemental. Reason alone as it's expressed in the sciences can't be man's complete answer to reality, and it can't express everything that man can, wants to, and has to express. I think God built this into man. Art along with science is the highest gift God has given him.

There are no limits to where our brains can take us. We are, if there be a God, God's gracious creation.

Everyone is born with genius, but most people only keep it a few minutes.

You do have a Dream. It's part of what it means to be human, created in the image of God.

God made man in his own image, and man returned the favour.

For it pleased God, after he had made all things by the word of his power, to create man after his own image.

It is the imagination that argues for the Divine Spark within human beings. It is literally a decent of the World's Soul into all of us.

We must accept that this creative pulse within us is God's creative pulse itself.

Thus man of all creatures is more than a creature, he is also a creator. Man alone can direct his success mechanism by the use of imagination, or imaging ability.

We are born to create, and we can't help it. Why is that? Because God, the great Creator, is in us.

n artistic atmosphere does not create artists a literary atmosphere does not create literators; poets and painters spring up where there was never a verse made or a picture seen. This suggests that God is no more idle now than He was at the beginning, but that He is still and forever shaping the human chaos into the instruments and means of beauty.

The imagination is one of the forces of nature.

Imagination is as close as we will ever be to godhead . . . for in imagination, we can create wonders.

God and the imagination are one.

Genius, that power which constitutes a poet; that quality without which judgment is cold, and knowledge is inert; that energy which collects, combines, amplifies and animates.