William Blake Quotes About Imagination
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The world of imagination is the world of eternity.
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The tree which moves some to tears of joy is in the eyes of others only a green thing that stands in the way. Some see nature all ridicule and deformity... and some scarce see nature at all. But to the eyes of the man of imagination, nature is imagination itself.
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In your own bosom you bear your heaven and earth, And all you behold, though it appears without, It is within, in your imagination, Of which this world of mortality is but a shadow.
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For the Eye altering alters all; The Senses roll themselves in fear And the flat Earth becomes a Ball.
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What is now proved was once only imagined.
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I rest not from my great task! | To open the Eternal Worlds, | to open the immortal Eyes of Man | Inwards into the Worlds of Thought; | Into eternity, ever expanding | In the Bosom of God, | The Human Imagination
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If you cannot imagine with the mind's eye much more than you can see with the mortal eye, you have a very poor imagination indeed.
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Does a firm persuasion that a thing is so, make it so?" He replied, "All poets believe it does. And in ages of imagination, this firm persuasion removes mountains; but many are not capable of firm persuasion of anything.
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Imagination is the real and eternal world of which this vegetable universe is but a faint shadow.
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Work up imagination to the state of vision.
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One Power alone makes a Poet: Imagination. The Divine Vision.
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To the eyes of the man of imagination, nature is imagination itself.
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The imagination is not a state: it is the human existence itself.
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Art degraded, Imagination denied.
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Nature has no outline. Imagination has.
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To me this world is all one continued vision of fancy or imagination, and I feel flattered when I am told so. What is it sets Homer, Virgil and Milton in so high a rank of art? Why is the Bible more entertaining and instructive than any other book? Is it not because they are addressed to the imagination, which is spiritual sensation, and but immediately to the understanding or reason?
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The world of imagination is the world of eternity. It is the divine bosom into which we shall all go after death of the vegetative body.
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The world of imagination is the world of eternity. It is the divine bosom into which we shall all go after the death of the vegetated [i.e. mortal] body. This world of imagination is infinite and eternal, whereas the world of generation is finite and temporal. There exist in that eternal world the eternal realities of everything which we see reflected in this vegetable glass of nature.
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