William Blake

“Art is the tree of life. Science is the tree of death.”

“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.”

“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.”

“He who binds to himself a joy Does the winged life destroy; But he who kisses the joy as it flies Lives in eternity's sun rise.”

“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.”

“Great things are done when men and mountains meet.”

“Exuberance is beauty.”

“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.”

“Art can never exist without naked beauty displayed.”

“I must create a system or be enslaved by another mans; I will not reason and compare: my business is to create.”

“The tree which moves some to tears of joy is in the eyes of others only a green thing that stands in the way. Some see nature all ridicule and deformity... and some scarce see nature at all. But to the eyes of the man of imagination, nature is imagination itself.”

“Where mercy, love, and pity dwell, there God is dwelling too.”

“Imagination is the real and eternal world of which this vegetable universe is but a faint shadow.”

“For everything that lives is holy, life delights in life.”

“The true method of knowledge is experiment.”

“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.”

“The bird a nest, the spider a web, man friendship.”

“The glory of Christianity is to conquer by forgiveness.”

“If the doors of perception were cleansed everything would appear to man as it is, infinite.”

“Opposition is true friendship.”