Famous William Blake Quotations

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"This life's dim windows of the soul Distorts the heavens from pole to pole And leads you to believe a lie When you see with, not through, the eye."
by William Blake
"When thou seest an eagle, thou seest a portion of genius; lift up thy head!"
by William Blake
"Art can never exist without naked beauty displayed."
by William Blake
"It is not because angels are holier than men or devils that makes them angels, but because they do not expect holiness from one another, but from God only."
by William Blake
"Nothing can be more contemptible than to suppose Public Records to be true."
by William Blake
"Prudence is a rich, ugly, old maid courted by incapacity."
by William Blake
"No bird soars too high if he soars with his own wings."
by William Blake
"It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend."
by William Blake
"All wholesome food is caught without a net or a trap."
by William Blake
"The generations of men run on in the tide of time, but leave their destined lineaments permanent for ever and ever."
by William Blake
"`I have no name: / I am but two days old.' / What shall I call thee? / `I happy am, / Joy is my name.' / Sweet joy befall thee!"
by William Blake
"A lot of poets too live on the margins of social acceptance, they certainly aren't in it for the money. William Blake - only his first book was legitimately published."
by Jim Jarmusch
"A petty sneaking thief I knew - / O! Mr Cr-, how do you do?"
by William Blake
"A truth that's told with bad intent, Beats all the lies you can invent."
by William Blake
"Abstinence sows sand all overThe ruddy limbs & flaming hair,But Desire GratifiedPlants fruits of life & beauty there."
by William Blake
"Always be ready to speak your mind and a base man will avoid you."
by William Blake
"And because I am happy and dance and sing, They think they have done me no injury."
by William Blake
"And priests in black gowns were walking their rounds, / And binding with briars my joys and desires."
by William Blake
"As I was walking among the fires of Hell, delighted with the enjoyments of Genius which to Angels look like torment and insanity. I collected some of their Proverbs."
by William Blake
"As I was walking among the fires of Hell,
delighted with the enjoyments of Genius;
which to Angels look like torment and insanity.
I collected some of their Proverbs."
by William Blake
"Both read the Bible day and night, But thou read'st black where I read white"
by William Blake
"Can I see another's woe, / And not be in sorrow too?"
by William Blake
"Children of the future AgeReading this indignant page,Know that in a former timeLove! sweet Love! was thought a crime."
by William Blake
"Energy is eternal delight."
by William Blake
"For everything exists and not one sigh nor smile nor tear, one hair nor particle of dust, not one can pass away."
by William Blake
"For Mercy has a human heartPity, a human face:And Love, the human form divine,And Peace, the human dress. Then every man of every clime,That prays in his distress,Prays to the human form divineLove Mercy Pity Peace."
by William Blake
"For Mercy has a human heart, Pity, a human face, And Love, the human form divine, And Peace, the human dress."
by William Blake
"He who has suffered you to impose on him knows you."
by William Blake
"He who desires, but acts not, breeds pestilence."
by William Blake
"He who binds to himself a joy Does the winged life destroy But he who kisses the joy as it flies Lives in eternity's sun rise."
by William Blake
"He's a Blockhead who wants a proof of what heCan't PerceiveAnd he's a Fool who tries to make such aBlockhead believe."
by William Blake
"He's a Blockhead who wants a proof of what he Can't Percieve And he's a Fool who tries to make such a Blockhead believe."
by William Blake
"Humility is only doubt, / And does the sun and moon blot out."
by William Blake
"I am in you and you in me, mutual in divine love."
by William Blake
"I have always found that angels have the vanity to speak of themselves as the only wise."
by William Blake
"I must create a system, or be enslaved by another man's."
by William Blake
"I myself do nothing. The Holy Spirit accomplishes all through me."
by William Blake
"I was angry with my friend I told my wrath, my wrath did end. I was angry with my foe: I told it not, my wrath did grow"
by William Blake
"I was angry with my friend I told my wrath, my wrath did end. I was angry with my foe I told it not, my wrath did grow."
by William Blake
"If others had not been foolish, we should be so."
by William Blake
"If the doors of perception were cleansed everything would appear to man as it is, infinite."
by William Blake
"If the doors of perception were cleansed every thing would appear to man as it is, infinite. For man has closed himself up, till he sees all things thru' narrow chinks of his cavern"
by William Blake
"If the doors of perception were cleansed every thing would appear to man as it is, infinite."
by William Blake
"Innocence dwells with Wisdom, but never with Ignorance."
by William Blake
"It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend"
by William Blake
"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 dispite."
by William Blake
"Love seeketh not itself to please, but for another gives its ease."
by William Blake
"Mutual forgiveness of each vice. Such are the Gates of Paradise."
by William Blake
"My mother groan'd, my father wept Into the dangerous world I leapt, Helpless, naked, piping load, Like a friend hid in a cloud."
by William Blake
"No bird soars too high, if he soars with his own wings"
by William Blake
"O why was I born with a different face?
Why was I not born like rest of my race?"
by William Blake 1803
"Pity would be no more / If we did not make somebody poor; / And Mercy no more could be/ If all were as happy as we."
by William Blake
"Prepare your hearts for Death's cold hand! prepareYour souls for flight, your bodies for the earth;Prepare your arms for glorious victory;Prepare your eyes to meet a holy God!Prepare, prepare!"
by William Blake
"The bird a nest, the spider a web, man friendship."
by William Blake
"The countless gold of a merry heart,The rubies and pearls of a loving eye,The indolent never can bring to the mart,Nor the secret hoard up in his treasury."
by William Blake
"The fields from Islington to Marybone, / To Primrose Hill and Saint John's Wood, / Were builded over with pillars of gold; / And there Jerusalem's pillars stood."
by William Blake
"The fox condemns the trap, not himself."
by William Blake
"The glory of Christianity is to conquer by forgiveness."
by William Blake
"The hours of folly are measured by the clock; but of wisdom, no clock can measure."
by William Blake
"The man who never alters his opinions is like standing water, and breeds reptiles of the mind."
by William Blake
"The weak in courage is strong in cunning."
by William Blake
"There can be no Good Will. Will is always Evil; it is persecution to others or selfishness."
by William Blake
"They suppose that Woman's Love is Sin; in consequence all the Loves & Graces with them are Sin."
by William Blake
"Thou art a Man, God is no more.
Thy own humanity learn to adore."
by William Blake
"Those who restrain desire, do so because theirs is weak enough to be restrained."
by William Blake
"Thy friendship oft has made my heart to ache do be my enemy--for friendship's sake."
by William Blake
"To generalize is to be an idiot."
by William Blake
"To see a world in a Grain of Sand,
And a Heaven in a Wild Flower,
Hold Infinity in the palm of your hand,
And eternity in an hour."
by William Blake
"To see a world in a Grain of Sand, And a Heaven in a Wild Flower, Hold Infinity in the palm of your hand, And eternity in an hour."
by William Blake
"To see a world in a grain of sand and a heaven in a wildflower, hold infinity in the palm of your hand and eternity in an hour."
by William Blake
"Tools were made and born were hands; every farmer understands."
by William Blake
"Truth can never be told so as to be understood, and not be believed."
by William Blake
"What is now proved was once only imagined."
by William Blake
"What is now proved was once only imagined"
by William Blake
"What now is proved was once only imagined."
by William Blake
"When I tell the truth, it is not for the sake of convincing those who do not know it, but for the sake of defending those that do."
by William Blake
"When the stars threw down their spears, / And watered heaven with their tears, / Did he smile his work to see? / Did he who made the Lamb make thee?"
by William Blake
"When thou seest an eagle, thou seest a portion of genius lift up thy head"
by William Blake
"Where Mercy, Love, and Pity dwell There God is dwelling too."
by William Blake
"Where man is not, nature is barren."
by William Blake
"You throw the sand against the wind And the wind blows it back again."
by William Blake
"'Little fly, thy summer's play My thoughtless hand has brushed away. Am not I a fly like thee? Or art not thou a man like me? For I dance and drink and sing, Till some blind hand shall brush my wing!'"
by William Blake
"A Robin Redbreast in a cage, Puts all Heaven in a Rage."
by William Blake
"I have no name: I am but two days old. What shall I call thee? I happy am, Joy is my name. Sweet joy befall thee!"
by William Blake
"Exuberance is beauty."
by William Blake
"My mother groaned, my father wept, into the dangerous world I leapt; helpless, naked, piping loud, like a fiend hid in a cloud."
by William Blake
"Commerce is so far from being beneficial to arts, or to empire, that it is destructive of both, as all their history shows, for the above reason of individual merit being its great hatred. Empires flourish till they become commercial, and then they are scattered abroad to the four winds."
by William Blake
"Great things are done when men and mountains meet. This is not done by jostling in the street."
by William Blake
"Christianity is art and not money. Money is its curse."
by William Blake
"Thinking as I do that the Creator of this world is a very cruel being, and being a worshipper of Christ, I cannot help saying: the Son, O how unlike the Father! First God Almighty comes with a thump on the head. Then Jesus Christ comes with a balm to heal it."
by William Blake
"Then my verse I dishonor, my pictures despise, my person degrade and my temper chastise; and the pen is my terror, the pencil my shame; and my talents I bury, and dead is my fame."
by William Blake
"Opposition is true friendship."
by William Blake
"Without contraries is no progression. Attraction and repulsion, reason and energy, love and hate, are necessary to human existence."
by William Blake
"The foundation of empire is art and science. Remove them or degrade them, and the empire is no more. Empire follows art and not vice versa as Englishmen suppose."
by William Blake
"Energy is an eternal delight, and he who desires, but acts not, breeds pestilence."
by William Blake
"The road to excess leads to the palace of wisdom."
by William Blake
"To create a little flower is the labor of ages."
by William Blake
"To generalize is to be an idiot. To particularize is the alone distinction of merit. General knowledge are those knowledge that idiots possess."
by William Blake
"He who would do good to another must do it in Minute Particulars: general Good is the plea of the scoundrel, hypocrite, and flatterer, for Art and Science cannot exist but in minutely organized Particulars."
by William Blake
"Men are admitted into Heaven not because they have curbed and governed their passions or have no passions, but because they have cultivated their understandings. The treasures of Heaven are not negations of passion, but realities of intellect, from which all the passions emanate uncurbed in their eternal glory. The fool shall not enter into Heaven let him be ever so holy."
by William Blake


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