"When nations grow Old,

The Arts grow Cold

And Commerce settles on every tree."

-- William Blake

"The crooked roads without improvement are roads of genius."

-- William Blake

"The personality will, we are continually amazed, kiss any required part of the anatomy to rise in the world; the soul refuses to kiss anything but life itself, and then, as Blake says, only as it flies."

-- David Whyte

"Energy is bliss."

-- William Blake

"We are put on earth for a little space, that we may learn to bear the beams of love."

-- William Blake

"The fool who persists in his folly will become wise."

-- William Blake

"The fool sees not the same tree that the wise man sees."

-- William Blake

"For everything that lives is holy, life delights in life."

-- William Blake

"The path of excess leads to the palace of wisdom."

-- William Blake