John Dryden Quotes about Imagination

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Imagining is in itself the very height and life of poetry, which, by a kind of enthusiasm or extraordinary emotion of the soul, makes it seem to us that we behold those things which the poet paints.

Imagining is in itself the very height and life of poetry, which, by a kind of enthusiasm or extraordinary emotion of the soul, makes it seem to us that we behold those things which the poet paints.

John Dryden

Imagination, Soul, Enthusiasm

John Dryden (1968). “Saggi critici”

Imagination in a poet is a faculty so wild and lawless that, like a high ranging spaniel, it must have clogs tied to it, lest it outrun the judgment. The great easiness of blank verse renders the poet too luxuriant. He is tempted to say many things which might better be omitted, or, at least shut up in fewer words.

John Dryden

Imagination, Might, Shut Up

John Dryden (1808). “The works of John Dryden now first collected ...”, p.121

John Dryden Quotes about Imagination

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