William Blake Quotes

The nakedness of woman is the work of God.

The Bat that flits at close of Eve Has left the Brain that won't believe. The Owl that calls upon the Night Speaks the Unbeliever's fright.

The moon, like a flower in heaven's high bower, with silent delight sits and smiles on the night.

What is grand is necessarily obscure to weak men. That which can be made explicit to the idiot is not worth my care.

How have you left the ancient love That bards of old enjoyed in you! The languid strings do scarcely move! The sound is forced, the notes are few!

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.

You become what you behold.

I myself do nothing. The Holy Spirit accomplishes all through me.

My mother groaned, my father wept, into the dangerous world I leapt.

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

For everything that lives is holy, life delights in life.

The soul of sweet delight, can never be defiled.

The hours of folly are measured by the clock; but of wisdom, no clock can measure.

Each man is haunted until his humanity awakens.

Hold infinity in the palm of your hand.

Mans desires are limited by his perceptions; none can desire what he has not perceived.

Without Unceasing Practice nothing can be done. Practice is Art. If you leave off you are lost.

If a thing loves, it is infinite.

Imagination is the real and eternal world of which this vegetable universe is but a faint shadow.

In seed time learn, in harvest teach, in winter enjoy.

Love seeketh only self to please, To bind another to its delight, Joys in another's loss of ease, And builds a Hell in Heaven's despite.

He whose face gives no light, shall never become a star.

He who shall hurt the little wren Shall never be beloved by men.

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

The modest Rose puts forth a thorn,The humble sheep a threat'ning horn:While the Lily white shall in love delight,Nor a thorn nor a threat stain her beauty bright.

Exuberance is beauty.

General knowledges are those knowledges that idiots possess.

If you cannot imagine with the mind's eye much more than you can see with the mortal eye, you have a very poor imagination indeed.

The glory of Christianity is to conquer by forgiveness.

As we are, so we see.

For all eternity, I forgive you and you forgive me.

Mysteries are not to be solved. They eye goes blind when it only wants to see why.

The weak in courage is strong in cunning.

Prisons are built with stones of Law. Brothels with the bricks of religion.

You've always had the power right there in your shoes, you just had to learn it for yourself.

The worship of God is, Honouring his gifts in other men each according to his genius, and loving the greatest men best; those who envy or calumniate great men hate God, for there is no other God.

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.

Gratitude is heaven itself.

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

In your own bosom you bear your heaven and earth, And all you behold, though it appears without, It is within, in your imagination, Of which this world of mortality is but a shadow.

Great things are done when men and mountains meet.

General good is the plea of the scoundrel, hypocite, flatterer.

To generalize is to be an idiot.

I see through my eyes, not with them.

Improvement makes strait roads, but the crooked roads without Improvement, are roads of Genius.

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

He who pretends to be either painter or engraver without being a master of drawing is an imposter.

The difference between a bad artist and a good one is: the bad artist seems to copy a great deal; the good one really does.

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

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