William Blake

"I give you the end of a golden string; Only wind it into a ball, It will lead you in at Heaven's gate, Built in Jerusalem's wall."

"Reason or Imagination? Which is the Lord & which is the Servant?"

"Immediately the Lark mounted with a loud trill, shaking the air with his wings, & the Nightingale awoke."

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

"Teach me, O Holy Ghost, the testimony of Jesus; Let me hear his voice in my ear."

"I have always found that Angels have the vanity to speak of themselves as the only wise."

"Knowledge is not by deduction, but Immediate by Sense & Vision."

"Man has no Body distinct from his Soul."

"Everything that lives is Holy."

"The eye sees more than the heart knows."

"In seed time learn, in harvest teach, in winter enjoy."

"Listen! there is a hell & a heaven & all that you do passes into eternity."

"But he is a slave because he has shut the Divine Vision of Imagination."

"Those who Restrain Desire, do so because Theirs is weak enough to be restrained."

"The spirit of prophecy never ceases in the human race."

"There can be no Art without Unceasing Attention to Particular Form."

"I have no name: I am but two days old."

"Sleep, sleep, beauty bright, Dreaming o'er the joys of night."

"O Rose, thou art sick! The invisible worm, That flies in the night, In the howling storm."

"Little Lamb, who made thee? Dost thou know who made thee?"

"Infancy, Fearlessness, Innocence, Purity, Happiness, desire of Truth."

"Poetry Painting & Music are the three powers in man of conversing with Paradise."

"Where is the Bard who shall sing the Acts of the unknown Warriors?"

"The Imagination is the Divine Body in Every man."

"Improvement makes strait roads; but the crooked roads without Improvement are roads of Genius."

"The Divine Vision is lost. Christ's Spiritual Body is lost to this generation."

"I see the Past, Present, & Future existing all at once."

"Let the Brothels of Paris be opened, With many an Hymn of Praise, the Architects & Mortals in Congregation sing."

"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."

"If the doors of perception were cleansed every thing would appear to man as it is, Infinite."