"All the best have something in common, a regard for reality, an agreement to its primacy over the imagination."
― Wislawa Szymborska
Topic(s):
Imagination
More From Wislawa Szymborska
- "In the language of poetry, where every word is weighed, nothing is usual or normal. Not a single stone and not a single cloud above it. Not a single day and not a single night after it. And above all, not a single existence, not anyone’s existence in this world."
- "Poetic talent doesn’t operate in a vacuum. There is a spirit of Polish poetry."
- "Each of us has a very rich nature and can look at things objectively, from a distance, and at the same time can have something more personal to say about them. I am trying to look at the world, and at myself, from many different points of view. I think many poets have this duality."
More In Imagination
- "Generally speaking, a howling wilderness does not howl: it is the imagination of the traveler that does the howling."― Henry David Thoreau
- "The Chinese art world does not exist. In a society that restricts individual freedoms and violates human rights, anything that calls itself creative or independent is a pretence. It is impossible for a totalitarian society to create anything with passion and imagination."― Ai Weiwei
- "You never quite know what’s going to strike your imagination, or something that won’t going to leave you alone, not going to leave alone, and this was one for me."― Peter Shaffer