Tag Archives: Imagination

“The power of poetry is, by a single word perhaps, to instill that energy into the mind which compels the imagination to produce the picture.”

Posted on March 18, 2019 by Kate Stover

The poet Samuel Taylor Coleridge gave a series of lectures on Shakespeare in 1811-1812. In this particular lecture, Coleridge says that he considers The Tempest to be “among the ideal” plays because it “appeals to the imagination.”  Coleridge believes that … Continue reading →

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“The sort of strenuous reading and writing program I advocate — four to six hours a day, every day — will not seem strenuous if you really enjoy doing these things…”

Posted on April 9, 2015 by Kate Stover

Not since Charles Dickens has a writer had so many readers “by the throat,” observed a British review of this classic by Stephen King. Having sold more than 350 million books, King could be considered an expert at many things, … Continue reading →

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“The problem is not so much that the world limits your imagination, as your imagination limits the world.”

Posted on January 4, 2015 by Tony Herman

This is the third of six volumes of memoir about the world and the imagination of Karl Ove Knausgaard.  It’s a new kind of writing that defies categorization and is driven be the desire to explore the truth. For Knausgaard, … Continue reading →

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