William Blake

"The true method of knowledge is experiment."

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

"Energy is Eternal Delight."

"The Hours which move upon the steeds of Light are crown'd with the eternal Glory."

"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."

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

"Without Contraries is no progression. Attraction and Repulsion, Reason and Energy, Love and Hate are necessary to Human existence."

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

"The bounded is loathed by its possessor. The same dull round, even of a Universe would soon become a Mill with complicated wheels."

"Exuberance is Beauty."

"I must create a system, or be enslav'd by another man's."

"The vision of Christ that thou dost see is my vision's greatest enemy."

"If you trap the moment before it's ripe, the juice runs out and leaves only the rind."

"Tyger Tyger, burning bright, In the forests of the night—what immortal hand or eye could frame thy fearful symmetry?"

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

"All that we see is owing to our senses; but to know that there are senses is not owing to the senses."

"I am not ashamed of my Opinions."

"Cunning and Malice are not human Nature; they are exceptions from it."

"Prisons are built with stones of Law. Brothels with bricks of Religion."

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

"Damn braces. Bless relaxes."

"The Angel that presided o'er my birth said, 'Little creature, form'd of Joy and Mirth.'"

"Art can never exist without Naked Beauty display'd."

"Some are born to sweet delight, Some are born to Endless Night."

"Do what you will, this Life's a Fiction And is made up of Contradiction."

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

"As a man is so he sees."

"The pride of the peacock is the glory of God."

"The wrath of the lion is the wisdom of God."

"The nakedness of woman is the work of God."