William Blake Quotes

They who forgive most shall be most forgiven.

It is the greatest of crimes to depress true art and science.

I have conversed with the spiritual Sun. I saw him on Primrose Hill

Oh! why was I born with a different face? why was I not born like the rest of my race? when I look,each one starts! when I speak, I offend; then Im silent & passive & lose every friend. Then my verse I dishonour, my pictures despise, my person degrade & my temper chastise; and the pen is my terror, the pencil my shame; all my talents I bury, and dead is my fame. Im either too low or too highly prized; when elate I m envy'd, when meek Im despis'd

The eagle never lost so much time as when he submitted to learn of the crow

The eye altering, alters all.

The cut worm forgives the plow.

Execution is the chariot of genius.

A tyrant is the worst disease, and the cause of all others.

Every man who is not an artist is a traitor to his own nature.

The mocker of Art is the mocker of Jesus.

Celebrate your existence!

A fool sees not the same tree that a wise man sees.

He who loves his enemies betrays his friends; this surely is not what Jesus meant.

The voice of honest indignation is the voice of God.

But if at church they would give some ale. And a pleasant fire our souls to regale. We'd sing and we'd pray all the live long day, Nor ever once from the church to stray.

The bird a nest, the spider a web, man friendship.

Work up imagination to the state of vision.

A good local pub has much in common with a church, except that a pub is warmer, and there's more conversation.

Do what you will this life's a fiction, And is made up of contradiction.

To Mercy, Pity, Peace and Love All pray in their distress, And to these virtues of delight Return their thankfulness.

I turn my eyes to the schools & universities of Europe And there behold the loom of Locke whose woof rages dire, Washed by the water-wheels of Newton. Black the cloth In heavy wreaths folds over every nation; cruel works Of many wheels I view, wheel without wheel, with cogs tyrannic Moving by compulsion each other: not as those in Eden, which Wheel within wheel in freedom revolve, in harmony & peace.

He who has few things to desire cannot have many to fear.

There is no mistake so great as the mistake of not going on.

The soul of sweet delight, can never be defiled.

Man has closed himself up, till he sees all things thro' narrow chinks of his cavern.

What is a wife and what is a harlot? What is a church and what is a theatre? are they two and not one? Can they exist separate? Are not religion and politics the same thing? Brotherhood is religion. O demonstrations of reason dividing families in cruelty and pride!

The vision of Christ that thou dost see Is my vision's greatest enemy.

Always be ready to speak your mind, and a base man will avoid you.

And we are put on earth a little space, That we may learn to bear the beams of love.

Innate ideas are in every man, born with him; they are truly himself. The man who says that we have no innate ideas must be a fool and knave, having no conscience or innate science.

If the Sun and Moon should ever doubt, they'd immediately go out.

When a sinister person means to be your enemy, they always start by trying to become your friend.

Fun I love, but too much fun is of all things the most loathsome. Mirth is better than fun, and happiness is better than mirth.

Error is created; truth is eternal.

Drive your cart and plow over the bones of the dead.

We are not meant to resolve all contradictions but to live with them and rise above them.

Each man is haunted until his humanity awakens.

The Woman that does not love your Frowns Will never embrace your smiles.

The strongest poison ever known came from Caesar's laurel crown.

Why stand we here trembling around, calling on God for help, and not ourselves, in whom God dwells?

Mere enthusiasm is the all in all.

The ancient Poets animated all sensible objects with Gods or Geniuses, calling them by the names and adorning them with the properties of woods, rivers, mountains, lakes, cities, nations, and whatever their enlarged & numerous senses could perceive.

Think in the morning. Act in the noon. Eat in the evening. Sleep in the night.

Eternity is in love with the productions of time.

LOVE'S SECRET Never seek to tell thy love, Love that never told can be; For the gentle wind doth move Silently, invisibly. I told my love, I told my love, I told her all my heart, Trembling, cold, in ghastly fears. Ah! she did depart! Soon after she was gone from me, A traveller came by, Silently, invisibly: He took her with a sigh.

Auguries of innocence "The emmet's inch and eagle's mile Make lame philosophy to smile. He who doubts from what he sees Will ne'er believe, do what you please.

To some people a tree is something so incredibly beautiful that it brings tears to the eyes. To others it is just a green thing that stands in the way.