3 December 2020 William Blake I must create a system or be enslaved by another mans I will not reason and compare: my business is to create.
3 December 2020 William Blake What is the price of experience? Do men buy it for a song? Or wisdom for a dance in the street? No, it is bought with the price of all the man hath, his house, his wife, his children.
3 December 2020 William Blake 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.
3 December 2020 William Blake Can I see another’s woe, and not be in sorrow too? Can I see another’s grief, and not seek for kind relief?
3 December 2020 William Blake The man who never in his mind and thoughts travel’d to heaven is no artist.
3 December 2020 William Blake Poetry fettered, fetters the human race. Nations are destroyed or flourish in proportion as their poetry, painting, and music are destroyed or flourish.
3 December 2020 William Blake It is not because angels are holier than men or devils that makes them angels, but because they do not expect holiness from one another, but from God only.
3 December 2020 William Blake 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.
3 December 2020 William Blake What is grand is necessarily obscure to weak men. That which can be made explicit to the idiot is not worth my care.
3 December 2020 William Blake 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.
3 December 2020 William Blake 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.
3 December 2020 William Blake Prisons are built with stones of Law. Brothels with the bricks of religion.
3 December 2020 William Blake That the Jews assumed a right exclusively to the benefits of God will be a lasting witness against them and the same will it be against Christians.
3 December 2020 William Blake 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.
