"I must create a system or be enslaved by another man's. I will not reason and compare; My business is to create."

"To see a world in a grain of sand and heaven in a wild flower Hold infinity in the palms of your hand and eternity in an hour."

"Excess of sorrow laughs, excess of joy weeps."

"If the doors of perception were cleansed, everything would appear as it is - infinite."

"And because I am happy and dance and sing,
They think they have done me no injury."

"Man's Desires are limited by his Perceptions; none can desire what he has not perceived."

"Do what you will, this world's a fiction and is made up of contradiction."

"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 some scarce see nature at all. But to the eyes of the man of imagination, nature is imagination itself."

"Can I see another's woe, and not be in sorrow too? Can I see another's grief, and not seek for kind relief?"

"Energy is an eternal delight, and he who desires, but acts not, breeds pestilence."

"One thought fills immensity."

"The true method of knowledge is experiment."

"The weak in courage is strong in cunning."

"When I tell any truth it is not for the sake of convincing those who do not know it, but for the sake of defending those who do."

"You never know what is enough unless you know what is more than enough. "

"Art is the tree of life. Science is the tree of death."


Quotes by William Blake