William Blake Quotes
Think in the morning. Act in the noon. Eat in the evening. Sleep in the night.
Did he who made the lamb make thee?
excuse my enthusiasm or rather madness, for I am really drunk with intellectual vision whenever I ta...
Show MoreThose who restrain desire do so because theirs is weak enough to be restrained.
Improvement makes straight roads but the crooked roads without improvement are roads of genius.
Some are born to sweet delight, Some are born to endless night.
Imagination is the real and eternal world of which this vegetable universe is but a faint shadow.
One thought fills immensity.
Poetry fettered, fetters the human race. Nations are destroyed or flourish in proportion as their po...
Show MoreHow can a bird that is born for joySit in a cage and sing?
If the Sun and Moon should ever doubt, they'd immediately go out.
The Old and New Testaments are the Great Code of Art.
Active evil is better than passive good
When I tell the truth, it is not for the sake of convincing those who do not know it, but for the sa...
Show MoreIt is right it should be so Man was made for joy and woe And when this we rightly know Through th...
Show MoreThere is a Moment in each Day that Satan cannot find
Life delights in life.
The naked woman’s body is a portion of eternity too great for the eye of man.
Man has no Body distinct from his soul; for that called Body is a portion of a Soul discerned by the...
Show MoreArt can never exist without naked beauty displayed.
I was angry with my friend: I told my wrath my wrath did end. I was angry with my foe: I told it no...
Show MoreDip him in the river who loves water.
The man who never alters his opinion is like standing water and breeds reptiles of the mind.
Exuberance is beauty.
Where mercy, love, and pity dwell, there God is dwelling too.
The tree which moves some to tears of joy is in the eyes of others only a green thing that stands in...
Show MoreIf a thing loves, it is infinite.
You cannot have Liberty in this world without what you call Moral Virtue, and you cannot have Moral ...
Show MorePrisons are built with stones of Law. Brothels with the bricks of religion.
I give you the end of a golden string,Only wind it into a ball,It will lead you in at Heaven's gateB...
Show MoreA fool sees not the same tree that a wise man sees.
No bird soars too high if he soars on his own wings.
Imitation is criticism.
A man can't soar too high, when he flies with his own wings.
He who desires but acts not breeds pestilence.
The bird a nest, the spider a web, man friendship.
I am in you and you in me, mutual in divine love.
When a sinister person means to be your enemy, they always start by trying to become your friend
Tools were made and born were hands Every farmer understands.
Travelers repose and dream among my leaves.
As a man is so he sees.
General good is the plea of the scoundrel hypocite flatterer.
The true method of knowledge is experiment.
But to go to school in a summer morn,O! It drives all joy away;Under a cruel eye outworn,The little ...
Show MoreWhen nations grow old the Arts grow coldAnd commerce settles on every tree
The thankful receiver bears a plentiful harvest.
The tigers of wrath are wiser than the horses of instruction.
Mirth is better than fun and happiness is better than mirth.
I was angry with my friend:I told my wrath, my wrath did end.I was angry with my foe:I told it not, ...
Show MoreThe man who never alters his opinion is like standing water, and breeds reptiles of the mind.
To Mercy Pity Peace and Love All pray in their distress.
Oh! why was I born with a different face? why was I not born like the rest of my race? when I look,...
Show MoreFor I dance And drink and sing,Till some blind hand Shall brush my wing.If thought is lifeAnd streng...
Show MoreWhat is a wife and what is a harlot? What is a church and what is a theatre? are they two and not on...
Show MoreFor Mercy has a human heart;Pity, a human face;And Love, the human form divine:And Peace the human d...
Show MoreLove seeketh not itself to please, nor for itself hath any care, but for another gives its ease, and...
Show MoreThe weak in courage is strong in cunning.
Want of money and the distress of a thief can never be alleged as the cause of his thieving, for man...
Show MoreHe who desires but acts not breeds pestilence.
No bird soars too high if he soars with his own wings.
The glory of Christianity is to conquer by forgiveness.
My mother groaned, my father wept,into the dangerous world I leapt.
What is the price of experience? Do men buy it for a song? Or wisdom for a dance in the street? No, ...
Show MoreI was walking among the fires of Hell, delighted with the enjoyments of Genius; which to Angels look...
Show MoreExcessive sorrow laughs. Excessive joy weeps.
He whose face gives no light, shall never become a star.
The lamb misused breeds public strifeAnd yet forgives the butcher's knife.
Fun I love, but too much fun is of all things the most loathsome. Mirth is better than fun, and happ...
Show MoreHe who would do good to another must do it in minute particulars: general good is the plea of the sc...
Show MoreMan has no Body distinct from his Soul; for that called Body is a portion of Soul discerned by the f...
Show MoreI must create a system or be enslaved by another man's.
The following Discourse [on art, by Sir Joshua Reynolds] is particularly Interesting to Blockheads a...
Show MoreThe cut worm forgives the plow.
I have mental joys and mental health Mental friends and mental wealth I've a wife that I love and ...
Show MoreA truth that's told with bad intent - beats all the lies you can invent.
The bird a nest the spider a web man friendship.
Enlightenment means taking full responsibility for your life.
Vision is the end of religion.
Better to shun the bait than struggle in the snare.
Thou art a manGod is no moreThy own humanityLearn to adore
The hours of folly are measured by the clock; but of wisdom, no clock can measure.
I must create a system or be enslaved by another mans I will not reason and compare: my business is ...
Show MoreOpposition is true friendship.
Can I see another's woe, and not be in sorrow too? Can I see another's grief, and not seek for kind ...
Show MoreWhat is now proved was once only imagined.
A robin redbreast in a cage Sets all heaven in a rage.
If the doors of perception were cleansed everything would appear to man as it is, infinite.
A truth that's told with bad intent beats all the lies you can invent.
Great things are done when men and mountains meet.
In seed time learn, in harvest teach, in winter enjoy.
What is grand is necessarily obscure to weak men. That which can be made explicit to the idiot is no...
Show MoreI must create a system or be enslaved by another man's. I will not reason and compare My business i...
Show MoreThe roaring of lions, the howling of wolves, the raging of the stormy sea, and the destructive sword...
Show MoreIf the doors of perception were cleansed, everything would appear to man as it is - infinite.
In the universe, there are things that are known, and things that are unknown, and in between them, ...
Show MoreWhen i tell the truth, it is not for the sake of convincing those who do not know it, but for the sa...
Show MoreTo see a world in a grain of sand and heaven in a wild flower Hold infinity in the palm of your hand...
Show MoreTruth can never be told so as to be understood and not be believed.
Some are born to sweet delight Some are born to endless night.
The tree which moves some to tears of joy is in the eyes of others only a green thing that stands in...
Show MoreWithout contraries is no progression. Attraction and repulsion, reason and energy, love and hate, ar...
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