Quotes About Imagination

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

Everything to be imagined is an image of truth.

To see a world in a grain of sand And a heaven in a wild flower, Hold infinity in the palm of your hand And eternity in an hour. A robin redbreast in a cage Puts all heaven in a rage. A dove-house filled with doves and pigeons Shudders hell through all its regions.

I will not reason and compare my business is to create.

How do you know but ev'ry Bird that cuts the airy way, Is an immense world of delight, clos'd by your senses five?

May God us keep From Single vision and Newton's sleep.

My work is visionary or imaginative. That which can be made explicit to the idiot is not worth my care...

To cast aside from Poetry, all that is not Inspiration

I know of no other Christianity and of no other Gospel than the liberty both of body & mind to exercise the Divine Arts of Imagination Imagination the real & eternal World of which this Vegetable Universe is but a faint shadow & in which we shall live in our Eternal or Imaginative Bodies, when these Vegetable Mortal Bodies are no more. The Apostles knew of no other Gospel.

none can desire what he has not perceiv'd.

I know that this world is a world of Imagination and Vision.

Man's desires are limited by his perceptions; none can desire what he has not perceiv'd.

Fear & Hope are — Vision

The man who never in his mind and thoughts travel'd to heaven is no artist.

One Power alone makes a Poet: Imagination, the Divine Vision.

Vedere un mondo in un granello di sabbia e un paradiso in un fiore selvatico, tenere l'infinito nel palmo della mano e l'eternità in un'ora.

To see the world in a grain of sand, And a Heaven in a Wild Flower. Hold infinity in the palm of your hand And Eternity in an hour.

He did not mean that his parents neglected him or that he found no friend. Rather, he meant that... our only sources of joy and mirth lie within us, in the mind, rather than outside us, on the earth. Blake's parents were loving and giving, but they could not give him the heavenly beauty and spiritual peace which is to be found only within us, in Christ, or, as Blake came to call Him, in the Human Imagination.

To see a World in a Grain of Sand And a Heaven in a Wild Flower, Hold Infinity in the palm of your hand

he considered further, the very ability to fantasise was a fundamental feature

Vuja dé is the flip side of that—looking at a familiar situation (an industry you've worked in for decades, products you've worked on for years) as if you've never seen it before, and, with that fresh line of sight, developing a distinctive point of view on the future.

As birds' wings beat the solid air without which none could fly so words freed by the imagination affirm reality by their flight.

A new music is a new mind.

The only realism in art is of the imagination.