Imagery Quotes

"When you read a novel, your own imagery is formed" "Art is the capture of a moment in eternal time." "As if you were on fire from within. The moon lives in the lining of your skin." "You know how this is if I look at the crystal moon, at the red branch of the slow autumn at my window, if I touch near the fire the impalpable ash or the wrinkled body of the log, everything brings me to you, as if everything that exists, aromas, light, metals, were little boats that sail toward those isles of yours that wait for me" "I want to eat the sunbeam flaring in your lovely body." "Don't tell me the moon is shining; show me the glint of light on broken glass." "Let the rain kiss you. Let the rain beat upon your head with silver liquid drops. Let the rain sing you a lullaby" "The birds of night peck at the first stars that flash like my soul when I love you" "The image is more than an idea. It is a vortex or cluster of fused ideas and is endowed with energy" "Ideas are like rabbits. You get a couple and learn how to handle them, and pretty soon you have a dozen" "And the verse falls to the soul like dew to the pasture." "I look on the nights as a cup on which I have filled to the brim with my loneliness and thrown to the sky" "The beautiful uncut hair of graves." "The darkness that swallowed up Deribasovskaya Street was suffused with the scent of roses" "I think a fragrance is all about sensations and imagery, and can evoke visions, feelings and thoughts" "The eyes of fire, the nostrils of air, the mouth of war" "The calm, cool face of the river asked me for a kiss " "Midnight shakes the memory as a madman shakes" "We have lingered in the chambers of the sea" "I will show you fear in a handful of dust"