A Vision of the Last Judgment
1810s
“Imagination is the real and eternal world of which this vegetable universe is but a faint shadow.”
Source: 1800s, Jerusalem The Emanation of The Giant Albion (c. 1803–1820), Ch. 1, plate 5, lines 16-20 The Words of Blake
“The eternal world and the mortal world are not parallel, rather they are fused.”
Source: Anam Cara: A Book of Celtic Wisdom
“it is only as anthat existence and the world are eternally.”
Source: The Birth of Tragedy/The Case of Wagner
“The created World is but a small Parenthesis in Eternity.”
Part III, Section XXIX
Christian Morals (first pub. post. 1716)
“Imagination governs the world.”
Napoleon : In His Own Words (1916)
“The world is but a canvas to the imagination.”
“The world of reality has its limits; the world of imagination is boundless.”
“The world of literature is a world where there is no reality except that of the human imagination.”
"Quotes", The Educated Imagination (1963), Talk 4: The Keys To Dreamland
