The imagination is not a state: it is the human existence itself.

The world of imagination is the world of eternity. It is the divine bosom into which we shall all go after the death of the vegetated [i.e. mortal] body. This world of imagination is infinite and eternal, whereas the world of generation is finite and temporal. There exist in that eternal world the eternal realities of everything which we see reflected in this vegetable glass of nature.

Without contraries is no progression. Attraction and repulsion, reason and energy, love and hate, are necessary to human existence.

The most sublime act is to set another before you.

The ancient Poets animated all sensible objects with Gods or Geniuses, calling them by the names and adorning them with the properties of woods, rivers, mountains, lakes, cities, nations, and whatever their enlarged & numerous senses could perceive.

Without Unceasing Practice nothing can be done. Practice is Art. If you leave off you are lost.

The Man who never in his Mind & Thoughts travel'd to Heaven Is No Artist.