Imagination · Skopia

Quotes

16

Imagination labors best in distant fields.

The Innocents Abroad · 1869

★ 7.8

If I were to wish for anything, I should not wish for wealth and power, but for the passionate sense of the potential, for the eye which, ever young and ardent, sees the possible. Pleasure disappoints, possibility never. And what wine is so sparkling, what so fragrant, what so intoxicating, as possibility!

Soren Kierkegaard

Either Or · 1843

★ 7.0

My diving bell becomes less oppressive, and my mind takes flight like a butterfly. There is so much to do. You can wander off in space or in time, set out for Tierra del Fuego or for King Midas's court. You can visit the woman you love, slide down beside her and stroke her still-sleeping face.

Jean-Dominique Bauby

The Diving Bell and the Butterfly · 1997

★ 4.3

O, who can hold a fire in his hand By thinking on the frosty Caucasus? Or cloy the hungry edge of appetite By bare imagination of a feast? Or wallow naked in December snow By thinking on fantastic summer’s heat?

William Shakespeare

1595

★ 3.8

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Books

6

The Collected Poems

Wallace Stevens

1954★ 8.6

The Little Prince

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

1943★ 8.6

Invisible Cities

1972★ 8.4

Arctic Dreams

1986★ 5.6

Where the Sidewalk Ends

Shel Silverstein

1974★ 4.9

Bridge to Terabithia

Katherine Paterson

1977★ 4.8