"Imagination is the real and eternal world of which this vegetable universe is but a faint shadow."
― William Blake
Topic(s):
Imagination
More From William Blake
- "He who binds to himself a joy Does the winged life destroy; But he who kisses the joy as it flies Lives in eternity’s sun rise."
- "He who would do good to another must do it in Minute Particulars: general Good is the plea of the scoundrel, hypocrite, and flatterer, for Art and Science cannot exist but in minutely organized Particulars."
- "The man who never in his mind and thoughts travel’d to heaven is no artist."
More In Imagination
- "To regard the imagination as metaphysics is to think of it as part of life, and to think of it as part of life is to realize the extent of artifice. We live in the mind."― Wallace Stevens
- "The pleasures of the imagination are as it were only drawings and models which are played with by poor people who cannot afford the real thing."― Georg C. Lichtenberg
- "You can’t depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus."― Mark Twain