William Blake

Opposition is true friendship.

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

What is a wife and what is a harlot? What is a church and what is a theatre? are they two and not one? Can they exist separate? Are not religion and politics the same thing? Brotherhood is religion. O demonstrations of reason dividing families in cruelty and pride!

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.

Art can never exist without naked beauty displayed.

Exuberance is beauty.

The tigers of wrath are wiser than the horses of instruction.

Poetry fettered, fetters the human race. Nations are destroyed or flourish in proportion as their poetry, painting, and music are destroyed or flourish.

You cannot have Liberty in this world without what you call Moral Virtue, and you cannot have Moral Virtue without the slavery of that half of the human race who hate what you call Moral Virtue.

In seed time learn, in harvest teach, in winter enjoy.

Can I see another's woe, and not be in sorrow too? Can I see another's grief, and not seek for kind relief?

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