"I like to have a thing suggested rather than told in full. When every detail is given, the mind rests satisfied, and the imagination loses the desire to use its own wings."

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"I like to have a thing suggested rather than told in full. When every detail is given, the mind rests satisfied, and the imagination loses the desire to use its own wings."

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"I like the stars. It's the illusion of permanence, I think. I mean, they're always flaring up and caving in and going out. But from here, I can pretend...I can pretend that things last. I can pretend that lives last longer than moments. Gods come, and gods go. Mortals flicker and flash and fade. Worlds don't last; and stars and galaxies are transient, fleeting things that twinkle like fireflies and vanish into cold and dust. But I can pretend..."

Neil Gaiman, British Author

Imagination, Stars, Illusion, Impermanence, Life

"...in an infinite universe, anything that could be imagined might somewhere exist."

Dean Koontz, American Author

Imagination, Universe, Infinite, Existence

"The imagination is a muscle. If it is not exercised, it atrophies."

Neil Gaiman, British Author

Imagination, Exercise, Creativity, Mind

"Few people have the imagination for reality."

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, German Poet

Imagination, People, Reality

"But then again, if you don't imagine, nothing ever happens at all. Imagining isn't perfect. You can't get all the way inside someone else. I could never have imagined Margo's anger at being found, or the story she was writing over. But imagining being someone else, or the world being something else, is the only way in."

John Green, American Author

Imagination, Empathy, Story, Truth

"I desired dragons with a profound desire. Of course, I in my timid body did not wish to have them in the neighborhood. But the world that contained even the imagination of FA¡fnir was richer and more beautiful, at whatever the cost of peril."

J. R. R. Tolkien, English Novelist

Imagination, Desire, Body, Peril

"Says, Rahula! Rahula! Face of Glory! Universe chawed and swallowed!"

Jack Kerouac, American Novelist

Imagination, Universe, Glory, Observation, Truth

"The nose of a mob is its imagination. By this, at any time, it can be quietly led."

Edgar Allan Poe, American Poet

Imagination, Time, Mob

"The world cannot be translated, It can only be dreamed of and touched."

Dejan Stojanovic, Serbian Philosopher

Imagination, World, Dream, Reality

"The realm of fairy-story is wide and deep and high and filled with many things: all manner of beasts and birds are found there; shoreless seas and stars uncounted; beauty that is an enchantment, and an ever-present peril; both joy and sorrow as sharp as swords."

J. R. R. Tolkien, English Novelist

Imagination, Fantasy, Beauty, Peril, Joy

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"...in an infinite universe, anything that could be imagined might somewhere exist."

"The imagination is a muscle. If it is not exercised, it atrophies."

"Few people have the imagination for reality."

"I desired dragons with a profound desire. Of course, I in my timid body did not wish to have them in the neighborhood. But the world that contained even the imagination of FA¡fnir was richer and more beautiful, at whatever the cost of peril."

"Says, Rahula! Rahula! Face of Glory! Universe chawed and swallowed!"

"The nose of a mob is its imagination. By this, at any time, it can be quietly led."

"The world cannot be translated, It can only be dreamed of and touched."

"The realm of fairy-story is wide and deep and high and filled with many things: all manner of beasts and birds are found there; shoreless seas and stars uncounted; beauty that is an enchantment, and an ever-present peril; both joy and sorrow as sharp as swords."

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"No bird has ever uttered note That was not in some first bird's throat; Since Eden's freshness and man's fall No rose has been original."

"To keep the heart unwrinkled, to be hopeful, kindly, cheerful, reverent - that is to triumph over old age."

"There must be such a thing as a child with average ability, but you can't find a parent who will admit that it is his child."

"Books that have become classics - books that have had their day and now get more praise than perusal - always remind me of retired colonels and majors and captains who, having reached the age limit, find themselves retired on half pay."

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"I like to have a thing suggested rather than told in full. When every detail is given, the mind rests satisfied, and the imagination loses the desire to use its own wings."