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
The man who cannot simply close his eyes knowing there is image after image far inside him, waiting quietly until night to rise all around him in the dark it’s all finished for him, he’s just like an old man.
the creative and active Imagination. It is the exercise of this faculty, conceived not as a merely human attribute but as continuous with the creative power of the world, that provides the means by which the intensive self can escape from its prison and enter that wider, more-than-human world.
Imagination is not a thing. It is not a muscle we have to strengthen or a part of the brain that we need to unlock. It is not bestowed on a chosen few “gifted” creatives. It is a place where something begins. Inherent to us all, the imagination is a reality—quite unlike this one—where visionaries have always travelled to harvest new images and idea
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