#on imagination

[thequotablescollector]

"...what most people don’t understand is what makes them geniuses is the fact that they’re children. Because children have access to a world of infinite imagination." — Boy Kavalier, Alien: Earth (Season 1, Episode 3; Metamorphosis)

[anaisninpdf]

Give me your unknown hand, since life is hurting me, and I don't know how to speak—reality is too delicate, only reality is delicate, my unreality and my imagination are heavier.

Clarice Lispector, The Passion According to G.H. (tr. Idra Novey)

[beemintty]

"Imagination, of course, can open any door—turn the key and let terror walk right in."

In Cold Blood (p. 88) by Truman Capote

[iphigennia]

Imagine Being Loved

federico garcía lorca / holly warburton / @stillangel / table two, mara avoth, (2022), link, @avothillustrates / “guilty of dust,” half-light: collected poems, frank bidart / couple, (c. 1950s), lyrics from “talk”, hozier, (2019) / @stillangel / introspection, nikki giovanni / table two, mara avoth, (2022), link, @2000bard / art for richard siken’s “war the of foxes” by @nutnoce

[luthienne]

Even memory is an act of imagination, you never tell the same story twice, not even to yourself.

Michael Burkard, as featured in Mary Ruefle’s On Imagination

[gashinaa]

-On Imagination by Mary Ruefle

[soulmaking]

Mary Ruefle, On Imagination