A Letter From the Young William Blake in Defense of the Imagination
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A Letter From the Young William Blake in Defense of the Imagination
Imagination – The Divine Faculty of Creation
✦ What it is:
Imagination is the creative visionary power of the soul—the bridge between spirit and matter. In ancient traditions, it wasn’t “make-believe,” but a higher sense used to access inner worlds, archetypes, and possibilities.
✦ Why it matters:
It allows you to visualise transformation before it hap
This is why art matters: because it dredges our psychic depths in ways that even the artist may not understand. “The arts,” writes the Zen poet Gary Snyder, following Levi-Strauss, “are the wilderness areas of the imagination, surviving like national parks in the midst of civilized minds.” Strange things grow in the wilderness; unusual plants thriv... See more