imaginative quotes

It will be found, in fact, that the ingenious are always fanciful, and the truly imaginative never otherwise than analytic.

- EdgarAllan Poe
  'The Murders in the Rue Morgue', in the Gentleman's Magazine, Apr.

For me, as for most novelists, every genuine imaginative event begins down there, with the facts, with the specific, and not with the philosophical, theideological, or the abstract.

- Philip Milton Roth
  The Facts: A Novelist's Autobiography,'Dear Zuckerman'.

Books of poetry by young writersareusually promissory notes that are never met. Now and then, however, one comes across a volume that is so far above the average that one can hardly resist the fascinating temptation of recklessly prophesying a fine future for its author. Such a book Mr Yeats's Wanderings of Oisin certainly is. Here we find nobility of treatment and nobility of subject- matter, delicacy of poetic instinct and richness of imaginative resource.

- Oscar Fingal O'FlahertieWills Wilde
  In the Pall Mall Gazette,12 Jul.