William Blake

"What is now proved was once only imagined."

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

"Better to shun the bait than struggle in the snare."

"He who binds to himself a joyDoes the winged life destroy;But he who kisses the joy as it fliesLives in eternity's sun rise."

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

"A man can't soar too high, when he flies with his own wings."

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

"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."

"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 a thing loves, it is infinite."

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

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

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

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

"What is now proved was once only imagined."

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

"Opposition is true friendship."

"Art can never exist without naked beauty displayed."

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

"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."