Fernando Pessoa Quotes

Imagination is the politics of dreams; imagination turns every word into a bottle rocket. . . . Imagine every day is Independence Day and save us from traveling the river changed; save us from hitchhiking the long road home. Imagine an escape. Imagine that your own shadow on the wall is a perfect door. Imagine a song stronger than penicillin. Imagine a spring with water that mends broken bones. Imagine a drum which wraps itself around your heart. Imagine a story that puts wood in the fireplace.

Dreams can never be made captive.

[The artist] speaks to our capacity for delight and wonder, to the sense of mystery surrounding our lives; to our sense of pity, and beauty, and pain; to the latent feeling of fellowship with all creation--and to the subtle but invincible conviction of solidarity in dreams, in joy, in sorrow, in aspirations, in illusions, in hope, in fear…which binds together all humanity--the dead to the living and the living to the unborn.

Yes, I'd love to have a garden of my own--spacious, and full of everything that is fragrant and flowering. But if I don't succeed, never mind--I've still got the dream.

What power would Hell have if those imprisoned were not able to dream of Heaven?

In my dreams I am not crippled. In my dreams, I dance.

You cannot kill a breeze, a wind, a fragrance; you cannot kill a dream or an ambition.

Just get a bag and drop a dream in it, and you'll be surprised what happens.

They can put me in a jungle. Still, I can create.

Depression opens the door to beauty of some kind.

I see drawings and pictures in the poorest of huts and the dirtiest of corners.

Hold fast to dreams, for if dreams die, life is a broken-winged bird that cannot fly.

I always appreciated the magnitude of my mother's imagination. She always saw beauty in what was broken, and she'd preserve it.

We can live with lots of things, but we can't live without imagination, we can't live without hope.

Those who lose dreaming are lost.

I have been drawn to stories that are attempting to turn suffering into beauty.

You build dreams, you build castles in the air, and you hope that at least part of that will be realized, even under apartheid.

Art's everything we hope life would be, a lot of times.

Life without dreams is like a bird with a broken wing - it can't fly.

A dream is better than obligation.

We need creativity. We need more poetry after Auschwitz.

No one should be forced to not dream anymore.

One only needs to see a smile in a white crape bonnet in order to enter the palace of dreams.

Dreams are excursions into the limbo of things, a semi-deliverance from the human prison.