Those who restrain desire, do so because theirs is weak enough to be restrained; and the restrainer or reason usurps its place… — William Blake Copy Share Image
Reason, or the ratio of all we have already known, is not the same that it shall be when we know more. — William Blake Copy Share Image
The reason Milton wrote in fetters when he wrote of Angels & God, and at liberty when of Devils & Hell, is… — William Blake Copy Share Image
To me this world is all one continued vision of fancy or imagination, and I feel flattered when I am told so.… — William Blake Copy Share Image
Energy is the only life, and is from the body; and reason is the bound or outward circumference of energy. Energy is… — William Blake Copy Share Image
The child's toys and the old man's reasons are the fruits of two seasons. — William Blake Copy Share Image
Acts themselves alone are history, and these are neither the exclusive property of Hume, Gibbon nor Voltaire, Echard, Rapin, Plutarch, nor Herodotus.… — William Blake Copy Share Image
“Energy is the only life and is from the Body and Reason is the bound or outward circumference of Energy.” — William Blake Copy Share Image
I must create a system or be enslaved by another mans; I will not reason and compare: my business is to create. — William Blake Copy Share Image
Commerce is so far from being beneficial to arts, or to empire, that it is destructive of both, as all their history… — William Blake Copy Share Image
Without contraries is no progression. Attraction and repulsion, reason and energy, love and hate, are necessary to human existence. — William Blake Copy Share Image
What is a wife and what is a harlot? What is a church and what is a theatre? are they two and… — William Blake Copy Share Image
Poetry fettered, fetters the human race. Nations are destroyed or flourish in proportion as their poetry, painting, and music are destroyed or flourish. — William Blake Copy Share Image
Kill not the moth nor butterfly, For the Last Judgement draweth nigh. — William Blake Copy Share Image
The world of imagination is the world of eternity. It is the divine bosom into which we shall all go after death of the… — William Blake Copy Share Image
Imagination is the real and eternal world of which this vegetable universe is but a faint shadow. — William Blake Copy Share Image
Time is the mercy of Eternity; without Time's swiftness Which is the swiftest of all things, all were eternal torment. — William Blake Copy Share Image
The difference between a bad artist and a good one is: the bad artist seems to copy a great deal; the good one really… — William Blake Copy Share Image
Cruelty has a human heart, and jealousy a human face. Terror, the human form divine, And secrecy, the human dress. — William Blake Copy Share Image
Those who restrain desire, do so because theirs is weak enough to be restrained; and the restrainer or reason usurps its place & governs… — William Blake Copy Share Image
