I am in you and you in me, mutual in divine love.
~ William Blake
Without contraries is no progression. Attraction and repulsion, reason and energy, love and hate, are necessary to human existence.
Love seeketh not itself to please, nor for itself hath any care, but for another gives its ease, and builds a Heaven in Hell's despair.
Art is the tree of life. Science is the tree of death.
The foundation of empire is art and science. Remove them or degrade them, and the empire is no more. Empire follows art and not vice versa as Englishmen suppose.
He who would do good to another must do it in Minute Particulars: general Good is the plea of the scoundrel, hypocrite, and flatterer, for Art and Science cannot exist but in minutely organized Particulars.
Man has no Body distinct from his Soul; for that called Body is a portion of Soul discerned by the five Senses, the chief inlets of Soul in this age.
Fun I love, but too much fun is of all things the most loathsome. Mirth is better than fun, and happiness is better than mirth.
Think in the morning. Act in the noon. Eat in the evening. Sleep in the night.
One thought fills immensity.
Prisons are built with stones of Law. Brothels with the bricks of religion.
In seed time learn, in harvest teach, in winter enjoy.
The thankful receiver bears a plentiful harvest.
Where mercy, love, and pity dwell, there God is dwelling too.
The true method of knowledge is experiment.
When I tell the truth, it is not for the sake of convincing those who do not know it, but for the sake of defending those that do.
A truth that's told with bad intent beats all the lies you can invent.
The weak in courage is strong in cunning.
Great things are done when men and mountains meet.
Travelers repose and dream among my leaves.
Excessive sorrow laughs. Excessive joy weeps.
To see a world in a grain of sand and heaven in a wild flower Hold infinity in the palm of your hand and eternity in an hour.
Art can never exist without naked beauty displayed.
Imagination is the real and eternal world of which this vegetable universe is but a faint shadow.
The bird a nest, the spider a web, man friendship.
Opposition is true friendship.
Can I see another's woe, and not be in sorrow too? Can I see another's grief, and not seek for kind relief?
No bird soars too high if he soars with his own wings.
Want of money and the distress of a thief can never be alleged as the cause of his thieving, for many honest people endure greater hardships with fortitude. We must therefore seek the cause elsewhere than in want of money, for that is the miser's passion, not the thief s.
The hours of folly are measured by the clock; but of wisdom, no clock can measure.
What is the price of experience? Do men buy it for a song? Or wisdom for a dance in the street? No, it is bought with the price of all the man hath, his house, his wife, his children.
Poetry fettered, fetters the human race. Nations are destroyed or flourish in proportion as their poetry, painting, and music are destroyed or flourish.
