William Blake

Always be ready to speak your mind, and a base man will avoid you.

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.

How do you know but ev’ry Bird that cuts the airy way, Is an immense world of delight, clos’d by your senses five?

The apple tree never asks the beech how he shall grow, nor the lion, the horse, how he shall take his prey.

To the eyes of the man of imagination, nature is imagination itself.

The true method of knowledge is experiment.

No bird soars too high if he soars with his own wings.

The difference between a bad artist and a good one is: the bad artist seems to copy a great deal; the good one really does.

I was angry with my friend: I told my wrath, my wrath did end. I was angry with my foe: I told it not, my wrath did grow.

If a thing loves, it is infinite.

He who kisses joy as it flies by will live in eternity's sunrise.

Prisons are built with stones of Law. Brothels with the bricks of religion.

Travelers repose and dream among my leaves.

I have no name: I am but two days old. What shall I call thee? I happy am, Joy is my name. Sweet joy befall thee!

Every harlot was a virgin once.

Imagination is the real and eternal world of which this vegetable universe is but a faint shadow.

Art can never exist without naked beauty displayed.

The thankful receiver bears a plentiful harvest.

My mother groaned, my father wept, into the dangerous world I leapt.

The man who never in his mind and thoughts travel'd to heaven is no artist.

May God us keep From Single vision and Newton's sleep.