Prisons are built with stones of Law. Brothels with the bricks of religion. – William Blake
What is a wife and what is a harlot? What is a church and what is a theatre? are they two and not one? Can they exist separate? Are not religion and politics the same thing? Brotherhood is religion. O demonstrations of reason dividing families in cruelty and pride! – William Blake
Poetry fettered, fetters the human race. Nations are destroyed or flourish in proportion as their poetry, painting, and music are destroyed or flourish. – William Blake
Think in the morning. Act in the noon. Eat in the evening. Sleep in the night. – William Blake
To the eyes of a miser a guinea is more beautiful than the sun, and a bag worn with the use of money has more beautiful proportions than a vine filled with grapes. – William Blake
What is grand is necessarily obscure to weak men. That which can be made explicit to the idiot is not worth my care. – William Blake
The true method of knowledge is experiment. – William Blake
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. – William Blake
Imagination is the real and eternal world of which this vegetable universe is but a faint shadow. – William Blake
Great things are done when men and mountains meet. – William Blake
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. – William Blake
Active Evil is better than Passive Good. – William Blake
It is not because angels are holier than men or devils that makes them angels, but because they do not expect holiness from one another, but from God only. – William Blake
That the Jews assumed a right exclusively to the benefits of God will be a lasting witness against them and the same will it be against Christians. – William Blake
Where mercy, love, and pity dwell, there God is dwelling too. – William Blake
Opposition is true friendship. – William Blake
The glory of Christianity is to conquer by forgiveness. – William Blake
What is the price of experience? Do men buy it for a song? Or wisdom for a dance in the street? No, it is bought with the price of all the man hath, his house, his wife, his children. – William Blake
The weak in courage is strong in cunning. – William Blake
I must create a system or be enslaved by another mans I will not reason and compare: my business is to create. – William Blake
