William Blake

(1757-1827)

• "I must create a system or be enslaved by another man's. I will not reason and compare: my business is to create."

• "If the doors of perception were cleansed everything would appear to man as it is, infinite".
  Source: The Marriage of Heaven and Hell

• "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."
  Source: Jerusalem, Chapter 3, Plate 55

• "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."
  Source: "Auguries of Innocence," in Poems from the Pickering Manuscript

• "Love to faults is always blind, Always is to joys inclind, Lawless wingd & unconfind, And breaks all chains from every mind."
  Source: Notebook Poems and Fragments

• "Those who restrain desire, do so because theirs is weak enough to be restrained; and the restrainer or reason usurps its place & governs the unwilling."
  Source: The Marriage of Heaven and Hell, Plate 5.

• "Opposition is true Friendship."
  Source: The Marriage of Heaven and Hell