“This world of imagination is the world of eternity.”

“Trembling I sit day and night, my friends are astonish’d at me.
Yet they forgive my wanderings, 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”

William Blake (1757–1827) English Romantic poet and artist

“The eternal world and the mortal world are not parallel, rather they are fused.”

John O'Donohue (1956–2008) Irish writer, priest and philosopher

“The world forgetting, by the world forgot.
Eternal sunshine of the spotless mind!”

Alexander Pope Eloisa to Abelard

“it is only as anthat existence and the world are eternally.”

Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900) German philosopher, poet, composer, cultural critic, and classical philologist

“The created World is but a small Parenthesis in Eternity.”

Thomas Browne book Christian Morals

“Imagination governs the world.”

Napoleon I of France (1769–1821) French general, First Consul and later Emperor of the French

“The world is but a canvas to the imagination.”

Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862) 1817-1862 American poet, essayist, naturalist, and abolitionist

“The world of reality has its limits; the world of imagination is boundless.”

Jean Jacques Rousseau (1712–1778) Genevan philosopher

“The world of literature is a world where there is no reality except that of the human imagination.”

Northrop Frye (1912–1991) Canadian literary critic and literary theorist