Occupation: Poet Birth: November 28, 1757 Death: August 12, 1827
Work up imagination to the state of vision..
As we are, so we see..
The person who does not believe in miracles surely makes it certain that he or she will never take part in one..
Every man who is not an artist is a traitor to his own nature..
Love is weak when there is more doubt than there is trust, but love is most strong when you learn to trust even with all the doubts. If a thing loves….
Make your own rules or be a slave to another man's..
In your own bosom you bear your heaven and earth, And all you behold, though it appears without, It is within, in your imagination, Of which th….
Love to faults is always blind, always is to joy inclined. Lawless, winged, and unconfined, and breaks all chains from every mind..
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..
The man who never alters his opinions is like standing water, and breeds reptiles of the mind..
You never know what is enough unless you know what is more than enough..
You become what you behold..
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..
Joy and woe are woven fine, A clothing for the soul divine. Under every grief and pine Runs a joy with silken twine..
The imagination is not a state: it is the human existence itself..
What is now proved was once only imagined..
The Woman that does not love your Frowns Will never embrace your smiles..
We are not meant to resolve all contradictions but to live with them and rise above them..
Better to shun the bait than struggle in the snare..
Prisons are built with stones of Law. Brothels with the bricks of religion..