Personal Imagination Quotes

Writing poems is a chance to construct spaces that I want to imaginatively inhabit.

Only an individual can imagine, invent, or create. The whole audience of art is an audience of individuals.

I always imagined my little cartoons on plates for some reason.

Every reader re-creates a novel - in their own imagination, anyway. It's only entirely the writer's when nobody else has read it.

Poetry is the work of poets, not of peoples or communities; artistic creation can never be anything but the production of an individual mind.

There's always an anxiety about playing literary characters because one of the great joys of reading books is that you can create your own vision of things.

It is the main earthly business of a human being to make his home, and the immediate surroundings of his home, as symbolic and significant to his own imagination as he can.

I do think that the imagination you create yourself when you're reading, to create the tone and the accent of the world, is an individual accomplishment that someone is imposing upon you by listening to them read it. Because you're listening to their interpretation, and their emphasis would probably be different from the one that your brain makes while you're reading it.