„The only thing that can save the world is the reclaiming of the awareness of the world. That’s what poetry does. By poetry I mean the imagining of what has been lost and what can be found—the imagining of who we are and the slow realization of it.“

— Allen Ginsberg

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„One has to remember that about imagination, that is when the world gets dull when everybody does not know what they can or what they cannot really imagine.“
— Gertrude Stein
„Experiments are the only means of knowledge at our disposal. The rest is poetry, imagination.“
— Max Planck
„The greatest thing a human soul ever does in this world is to see something, and tell what it saw in a plain way. Hundreds of people can talk for one who can think, but thousands can think for one who can see. To see clearly is poetry, prophecy, and religion, — all in one.“
— John Ruskin
„Poetry is an awareness of the world, a particular way of relating to reality.“
— Andrei Tarkovsky
„Poetry is not an expression of the party line. It's that time of night, lying in bed, thinking what you really think, making the private world public, that's what the poet does.“
— Allen Ginsberg
„Poetry and imagination begin life.“
— Florence Nightingale
„Poetry is the shadow cast by our imaginations.“
— Lawrence Ferlinghetti