William Blake Quotes

The eye altering, alters all... view

By: William Blake

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... view

By: William Blake

The tigers of wrath are wiser than the horses of instruction... view

By: William Blake

The thankful receiver bears a plentiful harvest... view

By: William Blake

The soul of sweet delight, can never be defiled... view

By: William Blake

The road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom... view

By: William Blake

The man who never in his mind and thoughts travel'd to heaven is no artist... view

By: William Blake

The man who never alters his opinions is like standing water, and breeds reptiles of the mind... view

By: William Blake

The hours of folly are measured by the clock.. view

By: William Blake

The glory of Christianity is to conquer by forgiveness... view

By: William Blake

Poetry fettered, fetters the human race. Nations are destroyed or flourish in proportion as their poetry, painting, and music are destroyed or flourish... view

By: William Blake

The fool who persists in his folly will become wise... view

By: William Blake

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

By: William Blake

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

By: William Blake

That the Jews assumed a right exclusively to the benefits of God will be a lasting witness against them and the same will it be against Christians... view

By: William Blake

Prudence is a rich, ugly, old maid courted by incapacity... view

By: William Blake

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

By: William Blake

The true method of knowledge is experiment... view

By: William Blake

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

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... view

By: William Blake

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!.. view

By: William Blake

You never know what is enough unless you know what is more than enough... view

By: William Blake

You cannot have Liberty in this world without what you call Moral Virtue, and you cannot have Moral Virtue without the slavery of that half of the human race who hate what you call Moral Virtue... view

By: William Blake

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

By: William Blake

Where mercy, love, and pity dwell, there God is dwelling too... view

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... view

By: William Blake

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

By: William Blake

What is the price of experience? Do men buy it for a song? Or wisdom for a dance in the street? No, it is bought with the price of all the man hath, his house, his wife, his children... view

By: William Blake

Want of money and the distress of a thief can never be alleged as the cause of his thieving, for many honest people endure greater hardships with fortitude. We must therefore seek the cause elsewhere than in want of money, for that is the miser's passion, not the thief s... view

By: William Blake

Opposition is true friendship... view

By: William Blake

The weak in courage is strong in cunning... view

By: William Blake

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

By: William Blake

Travelers repose and dream among my leaves... view

By: William Blake

To the eyes of a miser a guinea is more beautiful than the sun, and a bag worn with the use of money has more beautiful proportions than a vine filled with grapes... view

By: William Blake

To see the world in a grain of sand, and to see heaven in a wild flower, hold infinity in the palm of your hands, and eternity in an hour... view

By: William Blake

To see a world in a grain of sand and heaven in a wild flower Hold infinity in the palms of your hand and eternity in an hour... view

By: William Blake

To generalize is to be an idiot... view

By: William Blake

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

By: William Blake

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

By: William Blake

What is now proved was once only imagined... view

By: William Blake

Both read the Bible day and night, but thou read black where I read white... view

By: William Blake

Great things are done when men and mountains meet... view

By: William Blake