Imagery Quotes

"The calm, cool face of the river asked me for a kiss "

"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"

"When you read a novel, your own imagery is formed"

"Don't tell me the moon is shining; show me the glint of light on broken glass."

"The birds of night peck at the first stars that flash like my soul when I love you"

"Let me take you down, 'cause I'm going to strawberry fields"

"I have unrolled my years like a green field"

"The beautiful uncut hair of graves."

"I will show you fear in a handful of dust"

"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"

"Midnight shakes the memory as a madman shakes"

"As if you were on fire from within. The moon lives in the lining of your skin."

"We have lingered in the chambers of the sea"

"Whose voice was more like perfume to me than any sound designed to induce crushed wings and secret obedience"