I must Create a System or be enslav'd by another Man's. I will not Reason & Compare: my business is to Create. If the doors of perception were cleansed everything would appear to man as it is, infinite. Prisons are built with the stones of Law, Brothels with bricks of Religion. The poetry and paintings by William Blake presented on this website are in the public domain in the United States and in those countries with a copyright term of life of the author plus 100 years. In addition, because no financial gain is being obtained from their use, the photographs and scans used to present the paintings are also in the public domain in the United States (see Bridgeman Art Library v. Corel Corp.).