Цитаты из книги автора William Blake The Marriage of Heaven and Hell

If the doors of perception were cleansed everything would appear to man as it is, infinite.
For man has closed himself up, till he sees all things through narrow chinks of his cavern.

Where man is not, nature is barren.

Expect poison from the standing water.

Prisons are built with stones of law, brothels with bricks of religion.

Eternity is in love with the productions of time.

Drive your cart and your plough over the bones of the dead.
The road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom.

How do you know but every bird that cuts the airy way Is an immense world of delight, closed by your senses five?”

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, and of the Devil’s party without knowing it

Energy is the only life, and is from the Body; and Reason is the bound or outward circumference of Energy.
3. Energy is Eternal Delight.
Those who restrain desire, do so because theirs is weak enough to be restrained; and the restrainer or reason usurps its place and governs the unwilling.
And being restrained, it by degrees becomes passive, till it is only the shadow of desire.

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.