The Marriage of Heaven and Hell

by William Blake

Roses are planted where thorns grow, And on the barren heath Sing the honey bees.

Without Contraries is no progression. Attraction and Repulsion, Reason and Energy, Love and Hate, are necessary to Human existence. From these contraries spring what the religious call Good and Evil. Good is the passive that obeys Reason. Evil is the active springing from Energy. Good is Heaven. Evil is Hell.

Improvement makes straight roads; but the crooked roads without improvement are roads of Genius.

the weak in courage is strong in cunning.

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