All the best have something in common, a regard for reality, an agreement to its primacy over the imagination. Even the richest, most surprising and wild imagination is not as rich, wild and surprising as reality. The task of the poet is to pick singular threads from this dense, colorful fabric.
The folly of endless consumerism sends us on a wild goose-chase for happiness through materialism.
Marriage is wild. I thought it was this perfect land of happiness and joy. Wrong! After you say you do, you don't for a long time.
I hump the wild to take it all in, there is no bag limit on happiness.
Then there was Clark Ashton Smith, who wrote for Weird Tales and who had a wild imagination. He wasn't a very talented writer, but his imagination was wonderful.
My mind has an obsessive, neurotic quality, but I also have a very hard work ethic. I know that a lot of people think, oh, you have a wild imagination. I don't, really. If ten people are sitting around and someone says, "Hey complete this sentence in a funny way," I'm never ahead of the pack.
Happiness is ideal, it is the work of the imagination.
What wild imaginations one forms where dear self is concerned! How sure to be mistaken!
For as long as I can remember, I've always had a wild imagination and always enjoyed reading and writing.
I just had a crazy, wild imagination all my life, and science fiction is the greatest outlet for me.
You have all the reason in the world to achieve your grandest dreams. Imagination plus innovation equals realization.
Men endowed with a wild imagination should have, in addition, the great poetic faculty of denying our universe and its values so that they may act upon it with sovereign ease.
The music had to be rooted, and yet had to branch out,like the wild imagination of a child.
I had this wild imagination. I was never me. All my childhood photos, I'm in fancy dress, playing a Russian refuge or Marvelous Mad Madam Mim.
How can you work on letting your thoughts go and getting synchronized into the moment and questioning your wild imagination. But I say just think of all the great Japanese and Chinese poets and scholars who were also meditators.
Being twenty years old, I naturally had a wild imagination and a tender heart.
I apologize for my wild imagination.
Imagination plus innovation equals realization.
Invention requires both disciplines, strict common sense and wild imagination.
