William Blake, The Marriage Of Heaven And Hell Quotes

The road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom.

Improvement makes strait roads, but the crooked roads without Improvement, are roads of Genius.

Eternity is in love with the productions of time.

Expect poison from the standing water.

Dip him in the river who loves water.

But when he has done this, let him not say that he knows better than his master, for he only holds a candle in sunshine.

For every thing that lives is Holy.

Those who restrain desire do so because theirs is weak enough to be restrained.

Energy is the only life and is from the Body and Reason is the bound or outward circumference of Energy.

The reason Milton wrote in fetters when he wrote of Angels & God, and at liberty when of Devils & Hell, is because he was a true Poet and of the Devil's party without knowing it.

If the doors of perception were cleansed every thing would appear to man as it is, Infinite. For man has closed himself up, till he sees all things thro' narrow chinks of his cavern.