William Blake

"I hated you with the hate of hell, and I loved you as I love myself."

"The hours of folly are measured by the clock, but of wisdom no clock can measure."

"Every thing possible to be believ'd is an image of truth."

"The Imagination is not a State: it is the Human Existence itself."

"Children of the future Age reading this indignant page, know that in a former time Love! sweet Love! was thought a crime."

"The weak in courage is strong in cunning."

"Mutual Forgiveness of each Vice, Such are the Gates of Paradise."

"He who would do good to another must do it in Minute Particulars."

"The Nature of my Work is Visionary or Imaginative; it is an Endeavour to Restore what the Ancients call'd the Golden Age."

"A poet a painter a musician an architect: the man or woman who is not one of these is not an Christian."

"For Mercy has a human heart Pity, a human face."

"I am not ashamed afraid or averse to tell you what ought to be told."

"When I tell any Truth it is not for the sake of Convincing those who do not know it but for the sake of defending those that do."

"The desire of Man being Infinite, the possession is Infinite & himself Infinite."

"If others had not been foolish, we should be so."

"Man has no Body distinct from his Soul; for that call'd Body is a portion of Soul discern'd by the five Senses."

"The invisible worm that flies in the night, in the howling storm, has found out thy bed of crimson joy."

"One Power alone makes a Poet: Imagination the Divine Vision."

"To see a World in a Grain of Sand and a Heaven in a Wild Flower is Imagination."

"Generalize all you can; that is the work of the writer."

"O England! O Albion! The Furnaces thy Mills & the Mines."

"I come in the little tent of the beloved."

"Abstinence sows sand all over the red fruit of the vine."

"Sooner murder an infant in its cradle than nurse unacted desires."

"The most sublime act is to set another before you."

"Madness is to some an Occupation & to others an Impossibility."

"Excess of sorrow laughs. Excess of joy weeps."

"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."

"Auguries of Innocence"

"Remove away that blackning Church: remove away that marriage hearse."