Quotes by William Blake

Art is the Tree of Life, Science is the Tree of Death.

A man can't soar too high, when he flies with his own wings.

He who binds to himself a joyDoes the winged life destroy;But he who kisses the joy as it fliesLives in eternity's sun rise.

To see a World in a Grain of SandAnd a Heaven in a Wild Flower,Hold Infinity in the palm of your handAnd Eternity in an hour.

If a thing loves, it is infinite.

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

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

Every thing possible to be believed is an image of truth.

In the universe, there are things that are known, and things that are unknown, and in between, there are doors.

He who desires, but acts not, breeds pestilence.

I must create a system or be enslaved by another man's. I will not reason and compare; my business is to create.

He who would do good to another must do it in Minute Particulars. General good is the plea of the scoundrel, hypocrite, and flatterer.

Great things are done when men and mountains meet.

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.

Those who restrain desire do so because theirs is weak enough to be restrained.

The truest wisdom is a resolute determination.

The pride of the peacock is the glory of God. The lust of the goat is the bounty of God.

Every night and every morn some to misery are born. Every morn and every night some are born to sweet delight.

If others had not been foolish, we should be so.

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

He who would do good to another must do it in Minute Particulars.

I must create a system, or be enslaved by another man's.

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 sunrise.

Painting is silent poetry, and poetry is painting that speaks.

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

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

The crow wished everything was black, the owl that everything was white.

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

Joy and woe are woven fine, a clothing for the soul divine.

The thankful receiver bears a plentiful harvest.

I am in you and you in me, mutual in divine love.

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

He who kisses joy as it flies by will live in eternity's sunrise.

The most sublime act is to set another before you.

Exuberance is beauty.

The weak in courage is strong in cunning.

He who has suffered you to impose on him knows you.

The eye altering, alters all.

No bird soars too high, if he soars with his own wings.

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

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

Better to shun the bait than struggle in the snare.

Truth can never be told so as to be understood, and not be believed.

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

One thought fills immensity.

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

Every harlot was a virgin once.

To create a little flower is the labour of ages.

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

Opposition is true friendship.

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.

What is now proved was once only imagined.

I see the past, present and future existing all at once before me.

A truth that's told with bad intent beats all the lies you can invent.

He who desires but acts not, breeds pestilence.

The road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom.

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

Art can never exist without naked beauty displayed.

I will not reason and compare: my business is to create.

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

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

The tree which moves some to tears of joy is in the eyes of others only a green thing that stands in the way.

I must create a system or be enslaved by another man's; I will not reason and compare: my business is to create.

If the doors of perception were cleansed everything would appear to man as it is, infinite.

The imagination is not a state: it is the human existence itself.

No bird soars too high if he soars with his own wings.

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.

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

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