imaginative insight Quotes

Few poets have made a more interesting rhetoric out of just fooling around: turning things upside down, looking at them from under the sofa, considering them (and their observer) curiously enough to make the reader protest, "That were to consider it too curiously.

Sometimes I think that creativity is a matter of seeing, or stumbling over, unobvious similarities between things - like composing a fresh metaphor, but on a more complex scale.

The source of genius is imagination alone, the refinement of the senses that sees what others do not see, or sees them differently.

Ritual is the most primitive reflection of serious thought, a slow deposit, as it were, of people's imaginative insight into life.

The strength of fiction is not in reading about yourself, but in reading about other people.

Literature adds to reality, it does not simply describe it.

Very simple ideas lie within the reach only of complex minds. Remy de Gourmont An idea is salvation by imagination

Fiction is a lie that is told in the service of truth.

I just see potential in things that aren't there and how it's going to make you feel. Like, if it makes me feel a certain way, I try and create the vibe of how that felt to me. And try and create it for someone else.

Simplicity is a pleasant thing in children, or at any age, but it is not necessarily admirable, nor is affectation altogether a thing of evil. To be normal, to be at home in the world, with a prospect of power, usefulness, or success, the person must have that imaginative insight into other minds that underlies tact and savoir-faire, morality and beneficence. This insight involves sophistication, some understanding and sharing of the clandestine impulses of human nature. A simplicity that is merely the lack of this insight indicates a sort of defect.

He knew the world and its absurdities as only an intelligent Irishman can; which is to say that where his knowledge or memory failed him, his imagination was always ready to fill the gap.

To the eyes of the man of imagination, nature is imagination itself.

A writer's job is to give the reader a larger vision of the world.

Imagination is an almost divine faculty which, without recourse to any philosophical method, immediately perceives everything: the secret and intimate connections between things, correspondences and analogies.

With writing fiction, I'm either not courageous enough or just not suited for telling truths in a more conventional way. As an actor, I inhabit those characters as I'm writing them.

Poetry is a fossil rock-print of a fin and a wing, with an illegible oath between.

It is only through imagination that men become aware of what the world might be; without it, ‘progress’ would become mechanical and trivial.

All poetry like every work of art proceeds from a swift vision of things.

Imagination is not to be divorced from the facts. It is a way of illuminating the facts.

The use of imaginative fiction is to deepen your understanding of your world, and your fellow men, and your own feelings, and your destiny.