William Blake Quotes About Imagination

Quotes about: Imagination

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  What is now proved was once only imagined.

  William Blake

  Positive, Spiritual, Positivity

  William Blake, David Fuller (2000). “William Blake: Selected Poetry and Prose”, p.132, Pearson Education

• The imagination is not a state: it is the human existence itself.

  William Blake

  Imagination, States, Existence

  William Blake (2008). “The Complete Poetry and Prose of William Blake”, p.132, Univ of California Press

• 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.

  William Blake

  Nature, Moving, Eye

  William Blake (1977). “The Portable William Blake”, p.136, Penguin

• 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?

  William Blake

  Bible, Spiritual, Art

  William Blake (1988). “William Blake”, Oxford University Press, USA

• Imagination is the real and eternal world of which this vegetable universe is but a faint shadow.

  William Blake

  Real, Writing, Artist

  William Blake (2000). “The Selected Poems of William Blake”, p.352, Wordsworth Editions

• 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.

  William Blake

  Imagination, Heaven, Shadow

  William Blake, David Fuller (2008). “William Blake: Selected Poetry and Prose”, Longman Publishing Group

• To the eyes of the man of imagination, nature is imagination itself.

  William Blake

  Nature, Eye, Science

  William Blake (1977). “The Portable William Blake”, p.136, Penguin

• 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.

  William Blake

  Reality, Glasses, Vegetables

• One Power alone makes a Poet: Imagination. The Divine Vision.

  William Blake

  Imagination, Vision, Poet

  William Blake, David V. Erdman, Harold Bloom (1982). “The Complete Poetry and Prose of William Blake”, p.665, Univ of California Press

• 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.

  William Blake

  Imagination, World, Body

  William Blake (2008). “The Complete Poetry and Prose of William Blake”, p.555, Univ of California Press

• Work up imagination to the state of vision.

  William Blake

  Imagination, Vision, States

  William Blake (1906). “Illustrations of the Book of Job”

• 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.

  William Blake

  Eye, Imagination, Mind

• 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.

  William Blake

  Believe, Imagination, Age

  'The Marriage of Heaven and Hell' (1790-3) 'A Memorable Fancy' plates 12-13

• 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

  William Blake

  Eye, Men, Imagination

  William Blake (2008). “The Complete Poetry and Prose of William Blake”, p.147, Univ of California Press

• For the Eye altering alters all;
  The Senses roll themselves in fear
  And the flat Earth becomes a Ball.

  William Blake

  Eye, Imagination, Balls

  William Blake (2005). “Collected Poems”, p.123, Routledge

• The world of imagination is the world of eternity.

  William Blake

  Imagination, World, Eternity

  William Blake (1977). “The Portable William Blake”, p.446, Penguin

• Art degraded, Imagination denied.

  William Blake

  Art, Imagination, Denied

  William Blake (2008). “The Complete Poetry and Prose of William Blake”, p.274, Univ of California Press

• Nature has no outline. Imagination has.

  William Blake

  Imagination, Outlines

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