Quote #55
If the doors of perception were cleansed everything would appear to man as it is, infinite.
More from William Blake
- Those who restrain desire, do so because theirs is weak enough to be restrained; and the restrainer or reason usurps its place & governs th…
- The man who never alters his opinion is like standing water, and breeds reptiles of the mind.
- The reason Milton wrote in fetters when he wrote of Angels and God, and at liberty when of Devils and Hell, is because he was a true poet a…
- Opposition is true Friendship.
- Without contraries is no progression. Attraction and repulsion, reason and energy, love and hate, are necessary to human existence.
- The road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom.
- Rintrah roars and shakes his fires in the burdened air; Hungry clouds swag on the deep.
- He who desires, but acts not, breeds pestilence.