William Blake Quotes on Imagination & Visualization (7 Quotes)

I feel that a Man may be happy in This World. And I know that This World Is a World of Imagination Vision.

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

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

To open the Eternal Worlds, to open the immortal EyesOf Man inwards into the Worlds of Thought into EternityEver expanding in the Bosom of God, the Human Imagination.

Then I asked Does a firm persuasion that a thing is so, make it so' He replied All Poets believe that it does, and in ages of imagination this firm persuasion removed mountains but many are not capable of a firm persuasion of anything.'

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.

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.