The Marriage of Heaven and Hell: In Full Color QUOTES

2 " Exuberance is beauty. "

― William Blake , The Marriage of Heaven and Hell: In Full Color

4 " The Prophets Isaiah and Ezekiel dined with me, and I asked them how they dared so roundly to assert, that God spoke to them; and whether they did not think at the time, that they would be misunderstood, & so be the cause of imposition.

Isaiah answer'd, I saw no God, nor heard any, in a finite organical perception; but my senses discover'd the infinite in every thing, and as I was then persuaded, & remain confirm'd; that the voice of honest indignation is the voice of God, I cared not for consequences but wrote. "

― William Blake , The Marriage of Heaven and Hell: In Full Color

6 " You never know what is enough unless you know what is more than enough. "

― William Blake , The Marriage of Heaven and Hell: In Full Color

8 " The Devil answer'd: bray a fool in a morter with wheat, yet shall not his folly be beaten out of him; if Jesus Christ is the greatest man, you ought to love him in the greatest degree; now hear how he has given his sanction to the law of ten commandments: did he not mock at the sabbath, and so mock the sabbaths God? murder those who were murder'd because of him? turn away the law from the woman taken in adultery? steal the labor of others to support him? bear false witness when he omitted making a defense before Pilate? covet when he pray'd for his disciples, and when he bid them shake off the dust of their feet against such as refused to lodge them? I tell you, no virtue can exist without breaking these ten commandments; Jesus was all virtue, and acted from impulse, not from rules. "

― William Blake , The Marriage of Heaven and Hell: In Full Color

10 " Expect poison from the standing water. "

― William Blake , The Marriage of Heaven and Hell: In Full Color

12 " Energy is the only life and is from the Body and Reason is the bound or outward circumference of Energy. "

― William Blake , The Marriage of Heaven and Hell: In Full Color

14 " The man who never alters his opinion is like standing water, and breeds reptiles of the mind. "

― William Blake , The Marriage of Heaven and Hell: In Full Color

16 " 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. "

― William Blake , The Marriage of Heaven and Hell: In Full Color

18 " The cut worm forgives the plow. "

― William Blake , The Marriage of Heaven and Hell: In Full Color

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

― William Blake , The Marriage of Heaven and Hell: In Full Color