William Blake
William Blake
William Blakewas an English poet, painter, and printmaker. Largely unrecognised during his lifetime, Blake is now considered a seminal figure in the history of the poetry and visual arts of the Romantic Age. His prophetic works have been said to form "what is in proportion to its merits the least read body of poetry in the English language". His visual artistry led one contemporary art critic to proclaim him "far and away the greatest artist Britain has ever produced". In...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionPhilosopher
Date of Birth28 November 1757
I feel that a Man may be happy in This World. And I know that This World Is a World of Imagination & Vision.
For the Eye altering alters all; The Senses roll themselves in fear And the flat Earth becomes a Ball.
Work up imagination to the state of vision.
The world of imagination is the world of eternity.
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
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.
Art degraded, Imagination denied.
Nature has no outline. Imagination has.
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.
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.
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.
One Power alone makes a Poet: Imagination. The Divine Vision.
The imagination is not a state: it is the human existence itself.
When a man has married a wife, he finds out whether / Her knees and elbows are only glued together.