Elizabeth Goudge Quotes

Imagination is a form of seeing

The power of imagination created the illusion that my vision went much farther than the naked eye could actually see.

My reality needs imagination like a bulb needs a socket. My imagination needs reality like a blind man needs a cane.

Rarely has reality needed so much to be imagined.

Imagination is the eye of the soul.

To see things in the seed, that is genius.

Vision is perhaps our greatest strength... it has kept us alive to the power and continuity of thought through the centuries, it makes us peer into the future and lends shape to the unknown.

Imagination is the wide-open eye which leads us always to see truth more vividly.

I'm not such a fan of imagination. If you're alive to details, they oftentimes suggest a richer or deeper imaginative line than you would have imagined.

I'm a thinker and feeler and dreamer and explorer.

How can you see something that isn't there?" yawned the Humbug, who wasn't fully awake yet. "Sometimes, it's much simpler than seeing things that are,"he said. "For instance, if something is there, you can only see it with your eyes open, but if it isn't there, you can see it just as well with your eyes closed. That's why imaginary things are often easier to see than real ones." "Then where is Reality?" barked Tock. "Right here,"cried Alec, waving his arms.

What I give form to in daylight is only one per cent of what I have seen in darkness.

What is required is sight and insight- then you might add one more: excite.

He thinks he believes only what he sees, but he is much better at believing than at seeing.

Let the ugly light of the world in, we are no longer blind.

We are all visionaries, and what we see is our soul in things.

The fictional eye sees in, through, and around what is really there.

The imagination may be compared to Adam's dream-he awoke and found it truth.

Imagination is a very high sort of seeing, which does not come by study, but by the intellect being where and what it sees, by sharing the path, or circuits of things through forms, and so making them translucid to others.

Throw away the light, the definitions, and say what you see in the dark.

The difference between closing or opening your eyes is the choice between the imagined vs real. Blinking is only human.

Not creating delusions is enlightenment.

Children see things very well sometimes - and idealists even better.

It is the function of creative man to perceive and to connect the seemingly unconnected.

Reason is a fine thing, but it is not the only thing available to a writer. It's just part of the arsenal of many things available to a storyteller. Revelation, for example.