“Exuberance is beauty.”

Quotations from Blake’s “Marriage of Heaven and Hell”

• “Exuberance is beauty.”
• “Energy is eternal delight.”
• “Damn braces; bless relaxes.”
• “Enough! Or too much.”
• “I asked;  ‘does a firm persuasion that a thing if so, make it so?’
• “He replied: ‘all poets believe that it does,  and in ages of imagination this firm persuasion removed mountains; but many are not capable of  the firm persuasion of anything.’
• “If the doors of perception were cleansed, everything would appear to men as it is, infinite.”
• “For man has closed himself up till he sees all things through narrow chinks  of his cavern.”
• “Expect poison from standing water.”
• “The man who never alters his opinion is like standing water and breeds reptiles of the mind. “
• “Opposition is true friendship.”
• (from the Clod and the Pebble, “Songs of Innocence and Experience”
  Love seeketh not Itself to please,
  Nor for itself hath any care;
  But for another gives its ease,
  And builds a Heaven in Hell’s despair.
• Poems from Blake’s Notebook (c. 1800–1803)
  When a Man has Married a Wife
  He finds out whether
  Her Knees & elbows are only
  glued together.