I must create a system, or be enslaved by another man’s. I will not reason and compare: my business is to create.
WILLIAM BLAKEI must create a system, or be enslaved by another man’s. I will not reason and compare: my business is to create.
WILLIAM BLAKEWhat is grand is necessarily obscure to weak men. That which can be made explicit to the idiot is not worth my care.
WILLIAM BLAKEThe eye altering, alters all.
WILLIAM BLAKEHe who desires, but acts not, breeds pestilence.
WILLIAM BLAKEHow can a bird that is born for joy Sit in a cage and sing?
WILLIAM BLAKETo generalize is to be an idiot.
WILLIAM BLAKEI will not reason and compare my business is to create.
WILLIAM BLAKEThe busy bee has no time for sorrow.
WILLIAM BLAKEMy mother groaned, my father wept,i nto the dangerous world I leapt.
WILLIAM BLAKEIf the doors of perception were cleansed, everything would appear to man as it is – infinite.
WILLIAM BLAKEAnd Priests in black gowns, were walking their rounds, And binding with briars, my joys & desires.
WILLIAM BLAKEEvery harlot was a virgin once
WILLIAM BLAKESooner strangle an infant in its cradle than nurse unacted desires.
WILLIAM BLAKEPrudence is a rich, ugly old maid courted by incapacity.
WILLIAM BLAKEThe moon, like a flower in heaven’s high bower, with silent delight sits and smiles on the night.
WILLIAM BLAKEThe apple tree never asks the beech how he shall grow, nor the lion, the horse, how he shall take his prey.
WILLIAM BLAKE