Quotes of: Edgar-allan-poe Keyword

I discovered that my imagination came alive when I moved away from the immediate world around me.

Kazuo Ishiguro

There are two worlds: the world we can measure with line and rule, and the world that we feel with our hearts and imagination.

Leigh Hunt

First comes thought; then organization of that thought, into ideas and plans; then transformation of those plans into reality. The beginning, as you will observe, is in your imagination.

Napoleon Hill

We humans lack imagination, to the point of not even knowing what tomorrow's important things will look like.

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

London has always provided the landscape for my imagination. It becomes a character - a living being - within each of my books.

Peter Ackroyd

To my mind the boy who gives least promise is one in whom the critical faculty develops in advance of the imagination.

Quintilian

Works of imagination should be written in very plain language; the more purely imaginative they are the more necessary it is to be plain.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

The moment a person forms a theory, his imagination sees in every object only the traits which favor that theory.

Thomas Jefferson

Like a lot of people, for a long time I thought that the road to hell is paved with bad sequels.

Andrew Motion

Any time I find medicine that's helpful, I share it with everyone I know.

Clarissa Pinkola Estes

The task of the artist at any time is uncompromisingly simple to discover what has not yet been done, and to do it.

Craig Raine

Stories are different every time you tell them - they allow so many possible narratives.

David Antin

Write what you know. That should leave you with a lot of free time.

Howard Nemerov

My main form of transportation at that time was a bicycle, because bicycles could move though the crowd.

John Pomfret

Time, which changes people, does not alter the image we have retained of them.

Marcel Proust

If a little dreaming is dangerous, the cure for it is not to dream less but to dream more, to dream all the time.

Marcel Proust

People wish to learn to swim and at the same time to keep one foot on the ground.

Marcel Proust

My mother and my father divorced during the time that my father was getting his Ph.D. at Tulane.

Natasha Trethewey

How sweet for those faring badly to forget their misfortunes even for a short time.

Sophocles

I met Mos Def around that time but I didn't hook up with him until I was about 17 or 18.

Talib Kweli

Part of it is living in Tennessee. I'm so out of the loop. And as a person, I'm out of the loop. I'm oblivious by nature.

Ann Patchett