William Blake Quotes

Pay attention to minute particulars. Take care of the little ones. Generalization and abstraction are the plea of the hypocrite, scoundrel, and knave.

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.

Those who restrain their desires, do so because theirs is weak enough to be restrained.

And is he honest who resists his genius or conscience only for the sake of present ease or gratification

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

When the doors of perception are cleansed, men will see things as they truly are, infinite.

Knowledge is Life with wings

Excessive sorrow laughs. Excessive joy weeps.

He who wants, but doesn't act, is a pest.

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.

Eternity is in love with the productions of time.

If the doors of perception were cleansed everything would appear to man as it is, infinite. For man has closed himself up, till he sees all things thru chinks of his cavern.

Each man must create his own system or else he is a slave to another mans

One Power alone makes a Poet: Imagination. The Divine Vision.

One thought fills immensity.

Christianity is art and not money. Money is its curse.

Thy friendship oft has made my heart to ache: do be my enemy for friendship's sake.

As a man is, so he sees. As the eye is formed, such are its powers.

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 despair.

Bring me my bow of burning gold: Bring me my arrows of desire: Bring me my spear: O clouds, unfold! Bring me my chariot of fire.

He who sees the Infinite in all things sees God.

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

Can I see another's woe, and not be in sorrow too? Can I see another's grief, and not seek for kind relief?

Since all the riches of this world May be gifts from the Devil and earthly kings, I should suspect that I worshipp'd the Devil If I thank'd my God for worldly things.

Kill not the moth nor butterfly, For the Last Judgement draweth nigh.

The Sick Rose O Rose, thou art sick. The invisible worm That flies in the night In the howling storm Has found out thy bed Of crimson joy, And his dark secret love Does thy life destroy.

If you have formed a circle to go into,Go into it yourself and see how you would do.

The Man who never in his Mind & Thoughts travel'd to Heaven Is No Artist.

The fool who persists in his folly will become wise.

Expect poison from the standing water.

Art is the tree of life. Science is the tree of death.

The eye altering, alters all.

When nations grow old the Arts grow cold And commerce settles on every tree

Sweet babe, in thy face Soft desires I can trace, Secret joys and secret smiles, Little pretty infant wiles.

Pride is a personal commitment. It is an attitude which separates excellence from mediocrity.

I will not cease from mental fight Nor shall my sword sleep in my hand.

The fox condemns the trap, not himself.

Better to shun the bait than struggle in the snare.

The true method of knowledge is experiment.

Heaven is in a grain of sand.

Gratitude, in itself, is heaven.

As the caterpillar chooses the fairest leaves to lay her eggs on, so the priest lays his curse on the fairest joys.

Pity would be no more, If we did not make somebody poor. Mercy no more could be, If all were happy as we.

Sooner strangle an infant in its cradle than nurse unacted desires.

Without contraries is no progression. Attraction and repulsion, reason and energy, love and hate, are necessary to human existence.

God appears, and God is Light, to those poor souls who dwell in Night; but does a Human Form display to those who dwell in realms of Day.

Never seek to tell thy love; Love that never told can be. For the gentle wind does move silently.. invisibly.

Energy is an eternal delight.

The busy bee has no time for sorrow.

How can a bird that is born for joy Sit in a cage and sing?