Zitat des Tages von William Blake:
The true method of knowledge is experiment.
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.
Every harlot was a virgin once.
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.
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!
Can I see another's woe, and not be in sorrow too? Can I see another's grief, and not seek for kind relief?
Travelers repose and dream among my leaves.
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!
A fool sees not the same tree that a wise man sees.
The thankful receiver bears a plentiful harvest.
Always be ready to speak your mind, and a base man will avoid you.
Poetry fettered, fetters the human race. Nations are destroyed or flourish in proportion as their poetry, painting, and music are destroyed or flourish.
Lives in eternity's sun rise.
Christ's crucifix shall be made an excuse for executing criminals.
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.
One thought fills immensity.
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.
Eternity is in love with the productions of time.
When the green woods laugh with the voice of joy, And the dimpling stream runs laughing by; When the air does laugh with our merry wit, And the green hill laughs with the noise of it.
It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend.
Imagination is the real and eternal world of which this vegetable universe is but a faint shadow.
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.
Prisons are built with stones of Law. Brothels with the bricks of religion.
Where mercy, love, and pity dwell, there God is dwelling too.
You never know what is enough unless you know what is more than enough.
Opposition is true friendship.
I must create a system or be enslaved by another mans; I will not reason and compare: my business is to create.
The fool who persists in his folly will become wise.
The soul of sweet delight, can never be defiled.
If the doors of perception were cleansed everything would appear to man as it is, infinite.
He who binds to himself a joy Does the winged life destroy; But he who kisses the joy as it flies Lives in eternity's sun rise.
Man has no Body distinct from his Soul; for that called Body is a portion of Soul discerned by the five Senses, the chief inlets of Soul in this age.
If the fool would persist in his folly he would become wise.
If a thing loves, it is infinite.
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.
He who would do good to another must do it in Minute Particulars: general Good is the plea of the scoundrel, hypocrite, and flatterer, for Art and Science cannot exist but in minutely organized Particulars.