Thursday, July 28, 2016

Quotation from William Blake: How Is Nature Seen?

HOW IS NATURE SEEN?

     The tree which moves some to tears of joy is in the eyes of others only a green thing that stands in the way.  Some see Nature all ridicule and deformity, and by these I shall not regulate my proportions; and some scarce see Nature at all.  But to the eyes of the man of imagination Nature is Imagination itself.  As a man is, so he sees.
     WILLIAM BLAKE (1757-1827)
     English artist, poet and mystic

William Blake in a portrait by Thomas Phillips (1807)

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