William Blake, The Marriage of Heaven and Hell
7 quotes
"But when he has done this, let him not say that he knows better than his master, for he only holds a candle in sunshine."
"Expect poison from the standing water."
"Energy is the only life and is from the Body and Reason is the bound or outward circumference of Energy."
"The reason Milton wrote in fetters when he wrote of Angels & God, and at liberty when of Devils & Hell, is because he was a true Poet and of the Devil's party without knowing it."
"If the doors of perception were cleansed every thing would appear to man as it is, Infinite. For man has closed himself up, till he sees all things thro' narrow chinks of his cavern."
"The ancient tradition that the world will be consumed in fire at the end of six thousand years is true, as I have heard from Hell.For the cherub with his flaming sword is hereby commanded to leave his guard at tree of life, and when he does, the whole creation will be consumed, and appear infinite, and holy whereas it now appears finite & corrupt."
"Dip him in the river who loves water."