William Blake

"The bird a nest, the spider a web, man friendship."

"I am in you and you in me, mutual in divine love."

"A Robin Redbreast in a CagePuts all Heaven in a Rage.A dove house fill’d with doves and pigeonsShudders Hell thro’ all its regions.A Dog starv’d at his Master’s GatePredicts the ruin of the State.A Horse misus’d upon the RoadCalls to Heaven for Human blood.Each outcry of the hunted HareA fiber from the Brain does tear."

"May God us keepFrom Single vision and Newton's sleep."

"The lamb misused breeds public strifeAnd yet forgives the butcher's knife."

"Art is the tree of life. Science is the tree of death."

"It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend."

"What is now proved was once only imagined."

"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."

"If the Sun and Moon should ever doubt, they'd immediately go out."

"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."

"What is now proved was once only imagined."

"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."

"The glory of Christianity is to conquer by forgiveness."

"Exuberance is beauty."

"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."

"What is grand is necessarily obscure to weak men. That which can be made explicit to the idiot is not worth my care."

"Art can never exist without naked beauty displayed."

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

"Truth can never be told so as to be understood and not be believed."