The vision of Christ that thou dost see is my vision’s greatest enemy. Both read the Bible day and night, but thou read’st black where I read white. His seventy disciples sent against religion and government .
Such, such were the joys When we all, girls and boys, In our youth time were seen On the Echoing Green.
The child’s toys and the old man’s reasons are the fruits of two seasons.
General good is the plea of the scoundrel, hypocite, flatterer.
The Old and New Testaments are the Great Code of Art.
The grave is Heaven’s golden gate, And rich and poor around it wait; O Shepherdess of England’s fold, Behold this gate of pearl and gold!
The ignorant Insults of Individuals will not hinder me from doing my duty to my Art.
Men are admitted into heaven not because they have curbed or governed their passions, but because they have cultivate their understandings.
A tyrant is the worst disease, and the cause of all others.
None but blockheads copy each other.
For the Eye altering alters all; The Senses roll themselves in fear And the flat Earth becomes a Ball.
Every mortal loss is an immortal gain.
The worship of God is, Honouring his gifts in other men each according to his genius, and loving the greatest men best; those who envy or calumniate great men hate God, for there is no other God.
Kill not the moth nor butterfly, For the Last Judgement draweth nigh.
Nature has no outline. Imagination has.
Nothing is real beyond imaginative patterns men make of reality.
Heaven is in a grain of sand.
Everything is beautiful in its own way. Exuberance is beauty.
He who does not imagine in stronger and better lineaments, and in stronger and better light than his perishing and mortal eye can see, does not imagine at all.
God is the poetic genius in each of us.