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.
A man can’t soar too high, when he flies with his own wings.
A truth that’s told with bad intentBeats all the lies you can invent.
The glory of Christianity is to conquer by forgiveness.
Did he smile his work to see? Did he who made the Lamb make thee?
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.
If the doors of perception were cleansed, everything would appear to man as it is – infinite.
When the stars threw down their spears, and watered heaven with their tears, did he smile his work to see? Did he who made the Lamb make thee?
Better to shun the bait than struggle in the snare.
What is grand is necessarily obscure to weak men. That which can be made explicit to the idiot is not worth my care.
He whose face gives no light, shall never become a star.
I must create a system, or be enslaved by another man’s. I will not reason and compare: my business is to create.
Truth can never be told so as to be understood and not be believed.
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.
The lamb misused breeds public strifeAnd yet forgives the butcher’s knife.
But to go to school in a summer morn,O! It drives all joy away;Under a cruel eye outworn,The little ones spend the dayIn sighing and dismay.
How can the bird that is born for joySit in a cage and sing?How can a child, when fears annoy,But droop his tender wing,And forget his youthful spring?
I give you the end of a golden string,Only wind it into a ball,It will lead you in at Heaven’s gateBuilt in Jerusalem’s wall.
If the Sun and Moon should ever doubt, they’d immediately go out.
Improvement makes strait roads, but the crooked roads without Improvement, are roads of Genius.
excuse my enthusiasm or rather madness, for I am really drunk with intellectual vision whenever I take a pencil or graver into my hand.
And Priests in black gowns, were walking their rounds, And binding with briars, my joys & desires.
But when he has done this, let him not say that he knows better than his master, for he only holds a candle in sunshine.
He who replies to words of doubtdoth put the light of knowledge out.
Time is the mercy of Eternity without Time’s swiftness/ Which is the swiftest of all things: all were eternal torment.
May God us keepFrom Single vision and Newton’s sleep.
We live as One Man for contracting our infinite senses we behold multitude or expanding: we behold as one.
How can a bird that is born for joySit in a cage and sing?
Man has no Body distinct from his soul; for that called Body is a portion of a Soul discerned by the five senses, the chief inlets of Soul in this age.
When nations grow old the Arts grow coldAnd commerce settles on every tree
Thou art a manGod is no moreThy own humanityLearn to adore
My mother groaned, my father wept,into the dangerous world I leapt.
Enlightenment means taking full responsibility for your life.
When a sinister person means to be your enemy, they always start by trying to become your friend
Those who restrain desire do so because theirs is weak enough to be restrained.
For I dance And drink and sing,Till some blind hand Shall brush my wing.If thought is lifeAnd strength and breathAnd the wantOf thought is deathThen am IA happy flyIf I liveOr if I die
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.
The naked woman’s body is a portion of eternity too great for the eye of man.
The emmet’s inch and eagle’s mileMake lame philosophy to smile.He who doubts from what he seesWill ne’er believe, do what you please.- “Auguries of Innocence
There is a Moment in each Day that Satan cannot find
Energy is the only life and is from the Body and Reason is the bound or outward circumference of Energy.
Some are born to sweet delight, Some are born to endless night.
The reason Milton wrote in fetters when he wrote of Angels & God, and at liberty when of Devils & Hell, is because he was a true Poet and of the Devil’s party without knowing it.
You cannot have Liberty in this world without what you call Moral Virtue, and you cannot have Moral Virtue without the slavery of that half of the human race who hate what you call Moral Virtue.
The man who never alters his opinion is like standing water, and breeds reptiles of the mind.
The stars are threshed, and the souls are threshed from their husks.
If the doors of perception were cleansed every thing would appear to man as it is, Infinite. For man has closed himself up, till he sees all things thro’ narrow chinks of his cavern.
If the doors of perception were cleansed everything would appear to man as it is: Infinite.
The tree which moves some to tears of joy is in the eyes of others only a green thing that stands in the way.
I was walking among the fires of Hell, delighted with the enjoyments of Genius; which to Angels look like torment and insanity.
It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend.
In the universe, there are things that are known, and things that are unknown, and in between them, there are doors.
The roaring of lions, the howling of wolves, the raging of the stormy sea, and the destructive sword, are portions of eternity, too great for the eye of man.
What is Above is Within … the Circumference is Winthin, Without is formed the Selfish Center, and the Circumference still expands going forward to Eternity.
Then cherish pity, lest you drive an angel from your door.
It is right it should be so Man was made for joy and woe And when this we rightly know Through the world we safely go.
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.
A robin redbreast in a cage Sets all heaven in a rage.
Some are born to sweet delight Some are born to endless night.
The man who never alters his opinion is like standing water and breeds reptiles of the mind.
I must create a system or be enslaved by another man’s. I will not reason and compare My business is to create.
You never know what is enough unless you know what is more than enough.
The bird a nest the spider a web man friendship.
Improvement makes straight roads but the crooked roads without improvement are roads of genius.
General good is the plea of the scoundrel hypocite flatterer.
Mirth is better than fun and happiness is better than mirth.
Everything that lives lives not alone nor for itself.
A fool sees not the same tree that a wise man sees.
You never know what is enough unless you know what is more than enough.
A truth that’s told with bad intent – beats all the lies you can invent.
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.
You never know what is enough unless you know what is more than enough.
You never know what is enough unless you know what is more than enough.
You never know what is enough unless you know what is more than enough.
You never know what is enough unless you know what is more than enough.
You never know what is enough unless you know what is more than enough.
You never know what is enough unless you know what is more than enough.
You never know what is enough unless you know what is more than enough.
You never know what is enough unless you know what is more than enough.
A fool sees not the same tree that a wise man sees.
I must create a system or be enslaved by another man’s.
To Mercy Pity Peace and Love All pray in their distress.
No bird soars too high if he soars on his own wings.
The Old and New Testaments are the Great Code of Art.
A truth that’s told with bad intent Beats all the lies you can invent.
I have mental joys and mental health Mental friends and mental wealth I’ve a wife that I love and that loves me I’ve all but riches bodily.
The tigers of wrath are wiser than the horses of instruction.
Tools were made and born were hands Every farmer understands.
I must create a system or be enslaved by another mans 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.
Without contraries is no progression. Attraction and repulsion, reason and energy, love and hate, are necessary to human existence.
Love seeketh not itself to please, nor for itself hath any care, but for another gives its ease, and builds a Heaven in Hell’s despair.
Art is the tree of life. Science is the tree of death.
The foundation of empire is art and science. Remove them or degrade them, and the empire is no more. Empire follows art and not vice versa as Englishmen suppose.
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.
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.
Fun I love, but too much fun is of all things the most loathsome. Mirth is better than fun, and happiness is better than mirth.
Think in the morning. Act in the noon. Eat in the evening. Sleep in the night.
Prisons are built with stones of Law. Brothels with the bricks of religion.
In seed time learn, in harvest teach, in winter enjoy.
Where mercy, love, and pity dwell, there God is dwelling too.
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.
A truth that’s told with bad intent beats all the lies you can invent.
Great things are done when men and mountains meet.
To see a world in a grain of sand and heaven in a wild flower Hold infinity in the palm of your hand and eternity in an hour.
Art can never exist without naked beauty displayed.
Imagination is the real and eternal world of which this vegetable universe is but a faint shadow.
The bird a nest, the spider a web, man friendship.
Can I see another’s woe, and not be in sorrow too? Can I see another’s grief, and not seek for kind relief?
No bird soars too high if he soars with his own wings.
The hours of folly are measured by the clock; but of wisdom, no clock can measure.
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.
Poetry fettered, fetters the human race. Nations are destroyed or flourish in proportion as their poetry, painting, and music are destroyed or flourish.