William Blake

“The tigers of wrath are wiser than the horses of instruction.”

“Tools were made and born were hands, Every farmer understands.”

“If a thing loves, it is infinite.”

“Eternity is in love with the productions of time.”

“What is now proved was once only imagined.”

“He who binds to himself a joy Does the winged life destroy; But he who kisses the joy as it flies Lives in eternity's sun rise.”

“Better to shun the bait than struggle in the snare.”

“A man can't soar too high, when he flies with his own wings.”

“The glory of Christianity is to conquer by forgiveness.”

“For every thing that lives is Holy.”

“The Prophets Isaiah and Ezekiel dined with me, and I asked them how they dared so roundly to assert, that God spoke to them; and whether they did not think at the time, that they would be mi...”

“When the stars threw down their spears And watered heaven with their tears: Did he smile his work to see? Did he who made the Lamb make thee? - The Tyger”

“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.”

“If the doors of perception were cleansed, everything would appear to man as it is - infinite.”

“The road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom.”

“What is grand is necessarily obscure to weak men. That which can be made explicit to the idiot is not worth my care.”

“I must create a system, or be enslaved by another man's. I will not reason and compare: my business is to create.”

“Truth can never be told so as to be understood and not be believed.”

“The lamb misused breeds public strife And yet forgives the butcher's knife.”

“To see a World in a grain of sand, And a Heaven in a wild flower, Hold Infinity in the palm of your hand, And Eternity in an hour.”