James Merrill Quotes

And, as I have said, it's made me think twice about the imagination. If the spirits aren't external, how astonishing the mediums become! Victor Hugo said of his voices that they were like his own mental powers multiplied by five.

James Merrill

• Imagination

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• No breed of cats in its proper condition can by any stretch of the imagination be thought of as even slightly ungraceful - a record against which must be pitted the depressing spectacle of impossibly flattened bulldogs, grotesquely elongated dachshunds, hideously shapeless and shaggy Airedales, and the like.

  

  H. P. Lovecraft
  • Imagination
  • Thought
  • Cats

• Disneyland will never be completed. It will continue to grow as long as there is imagination left in the world.

  

  Walt Disney
  • World
  • Long
  • Imagination

• I am on Facebook, but mainly as a way to spy on my children. I find out more about them from their Facebook pages than from what they tell me.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • Children
  • Facebook
  • Spy

• One of the biggest mistakes people make is to think that what you need to write a novel is imagination, creativity and a facility with words. Yes, you need all those things, but a novel is a highly complex organism that needs to be dealt with in quite a logical manner.

  

  Kate Forsyth
  • People
  • Words
  • Imagination

• One of the virtues of being very young is that you don't let the facts get in the way of your imagination.

  

  Sam Levenson
  • Imagination
  • Young
  • Facts

• Once, America's size in the imagination was limitless. After Europeans settled and changed it, working from the coasts inland, its size in the imagination shrank.

  

  Ian Frazier
  • America
  • Imagination
  • Size

• Exploration is the engine that drives innovation. Innovation drives economic growth.

  

  Edith Widder
  • Growth
  • Innovation
  • Economic

• Anything you put your mind to and add your imagination into can make your life a lot better and a lot more fun.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • Life
  • Mind
  • Fun

• I've had hundreds of requests from journalists all over the world asking me to speak about Leicester, which is astonishing. It's captured the imagination.

  

  Gary Lineker
  • World
  • Imagination
  • Speak

• Reality is how we interpret it. Imagination and volition play a part in that interpretation. Which means that all reality is to some extent a fiction.

  

  Yann Martel
  • Reality
  • Play
  • Imagination

• I think my printing to this day looks like the printing right out of a comic book. Actually, I always wanted to be in a comic book. I watched cartoons when I was a kid, too, and both comics and cartoons lit fire in my imagination. This realm holds a lot of interest for me, a lot of passion for me. So to be comic-ized, yeah, that's cool.

  

  Nathan Fillion
  • Book
  • Day
  • Passion

• I don't have a great imagination to share something with you that you don't know, so it's about interpreting things - a dialogue.

  

  Nate Lowman
  • Great
  • Know
  • Imagination

• I think that different actors go about their preparation differently, but when it comes to acting, I use my imagination.

  

  Edi Gathegi
  • Different
  • Imagination
  • Preparation

• Knowledge is a polite word for dead but not buried imagination.

  

  e. e. cummings
  • Knowledge
  • Imagination
  • Word

• Imagination is not something apart and hermetic, not a way of leaving reality behind; it is a way of engaging reality.

  

  Irving Howe
  • Reality
  • Imagination
  • Leaving

• I had an incredibly full life with my imagination: I used to have all sorts of trolls and things; I had a wonderful world around my toys and invented people. I don't mean I had imaginary friends; I just had this big imagination thing going on. I didn't need any imaginary friends, because I had so much other stuff going on.

  

  Kate Bush
  • People
  • Life
  • World

• I did not go to any creative writing workshop; I did not major in literature. If I can write, anyone can write. All it needs is imagination.

  

  Vikas Swarup
  • Writing
  • Imagination
  • Literature

• Our fears are an amazing gift of the imagination... a way of glimpsing what might be the future when there's still time to influence how that future will play out.

  

  Karen Thompson Walker
  • Time
  • Future
  • Amazing

• Picture books are for everybody at any age, not books to be left behind as we grow older. The best ones leave a tantalising gap between the pictures and the words, a gap that is filled by the reader's imagination, adding so much to the excitement of reading a book.

  

  Anthony Browne
  • Book
  • Age
  • Words

• One Power alone makes a Poet: Imagination. The Divine Vision.

  

  William Blake
  • Power
  • Imagination
  • Poet

• I believe it is an established maxim in morals that he who makes an assertion without knowing whether it is true or false, is guilty of falsehood; and the accidental truth of the assertion, does not justify or excuse him.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Believe
  • Truth
  • True

• I'm driven by issues, not driven to be political.

  

  Kevin McCloud
  • Political

• The classification of facts and the formation of absolute judgments upon the basis of this classification-judgments independent of the idiosyncrasies of the individual mind-essentially sum up the aim and method of modern science. The scientific man has above all things to strive at self-elimination in his judgments, to provide an argument which is as true for each individual mind as for his own.

  

  Karl Pearson
  • Up
  • Mind
  • True

• And, as I have said, it's made me think twice about the imagination. If the spirits aren't external, how astonishing the mediums become! Victor Hugo said of his voices that they were like his own mental powers multiplied by five.

  

  James Merrill
  • Imagination