Top 472 Quotes & Sayings by William Blake
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Last updated on December 24, 2024.
Excessive sorrow laughs. Excessive joy weeps.
If the Sun and Moon should ever doubt, they'd immediately go out.
He who desires, but acts not, breeds pestilence.
The tree which moves some to tears of joy is in the eyes of others only a green thing that stands in the way. Some see nature all ridicule and deformity... and some scarce see nature at all. But to the eyes of the man of imagination, nature is imagination itself.
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.
Think in the morning. Act in the noon. Eat in the evening. Sleep in the night.
What is now proved was once only imagined.
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.
Poetry fettered, fetters the human race. Nations are destroyed or flourish in proportion as their poetry, painting, and music are destroyed or flourish.
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.
Love to faults is always blind, always is to joy inclined. Lawless, winged, and unconfined, and breaks all chains from every mind.
I am in you and you in me, mutual in divine love.
Without contraries is no progression. Attraction and repulsion, reason and energy, love and hate, are necessary to human existence.
Travelers repose and dream among my leaves.
A fool sees not the same tree that a wise man sees.
You never know what is enough unless you know what is more than enough.
The glory of Christianity is to conquer by forgiveness.
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!
Do what you will, this world's a fiction and is made up of contradiction.
A truth that's told with bad intent beats all the lies you can invent.
The road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom.
Eternity is in love with the productions of time.
The true method of knowledge is experiment.
The fool who persists in his folly will become wise.
If the doors of perception were cleansed everything would appear to man as it is, infinite.
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.
The weak in courage is strong in cunning.
Can I see another's woe, and not be in sorrow too? Can I see another's grief, and not seek for kind relief?
Great things are done when men and mountains meet.
One thought fills immensity.
I must create a system or be enslaved by another mans; I will not reason and compare: my business is to create.
Energy is an eternal delight, and he who desires, but acts not, breeds pestilence.
The eye altering, alters all.
Exuberance is beauty.
The hours of folly are measured by the clock; but of wisdom, no clock can measure.
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 thankful receiver bears a plentiful harvest.
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.
Imagination is the real and eternal world of which this vegetable universe is but a faint shadow.
Opposition is true friendship.
Prisons are built with stones of Law. Brothels with the bricks of religion.
When a sinister person means to be your enemy, they always start by trying to become your friend.
To see a world in a grain of sand and heaven in a wild flower Hold infinity in the palm of your hand and eternity in an hour.
The bird a nest, the spider a web, man friendship.
Art can never exist without naked beauty displayed.
The man who never alters his opinions is like standing water, and breeds reptiles of the mind.
The tigers of wrath are wiser than the horses of instruction.
Prudence is a rich, ugly, old maid courted by incapacity.
Art is the tree of life. Science is the tree of death.
Where mercy, love, and pity dwell, there God is dwelling too.
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.
Both read the Bible day and night, but thou read black where I read white.
If the fool would persist in his folly he would become wise.
Active Evil is better than Passive Good.
No bird soars too high if he soars with his own wings.
When the green woods laugh with the voice of joy, And the dimpling stream runs laughing by; When the air does laugh with our merry wit, And the green hill laughs with the noise of it.
To generalize is to be an idiot.
It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend.
In seed time learn, in harvest teach, in winter enjoy.
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