W. H. Auden Quotes

If I sit and daydream, the images rush by like a succession of colored slides.

I have such a rich fantasy life, I can't help it. I do make up a lot of romantic stories in my head.

The more we see the more we must be able to imagine, and the more we imagine, the more we must think we see.

I've always had a slightly overactive imagination.

I have a very vivid imagination.

I can be fascinated with very little things. The clouds stimulate my imagination, and sometimes I just sit somewhere and go on dreaming for a long time. Your head is also a computer. When you're dreaming, you are simulating a world in which you are living.

When I was small, I was always thinking about different worlds in my head.

I believe that dreams - day dreams, you know, with your eyes wide open and your brain machinery whizzing - are likely to lead to the betterment of the world.

The most important dreams occur while people are fully awake.

Write about it by day and dream about it by night.

No dreams, no visions, no delicious fantasies, no castles in the air, with which, as the old song so truly says, hearts are broken, heads are turned.

He who passes not his days in the realm of dreams is the slave of the days.

We all live best in our imaginations.

Daydream, imagine, and reflect. It’s the source of infinite creativity.

We spend a good part of our lives dreaming, especially when we're awake.

I've never really had much of an imagination. But still I would try to picture the exact moment when the beating of my heart would no longer be going on inside my head.

There were moments - I would be daydreaming - I would imagine scenes, even if there wasn't a camera around. In my head, I was acting.

Idle dreaming is often of the essence of what we do.

Man lives by imagination.

If anybody reads a story in a magazine or book, different pictures compete in their minds.

I don't remember my dreams too much. I hardly have ever gotten ideas from nighttime dreams. But I love daydreaming and dream logic and the way dreams go.

I was a great dreamer of day dreams.

I just get silly inside my head and I start to think about something and in my head I start twisting it around, contorting it and envisioning it in different ways.

I always had an awful lot going on in my head, always telling myself stories, very vivid imagination.