William Blake was an English poet, painter, and printmaker. Profoundly inspirational William Blake quotes will challenge the way you think, change the way you live and transform your whole life.
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Famous William Blake Quotes
I care not whether a man is good or evil; all that I care Is whether he is a wise man or a fool. Go! put off holiness, And put on intellect. William Blake
Excessive sorrow laughs. Excessive joy weeps.
In the universe, there are things that are known, and things that are unknown, and in between, there are doors. William Blake
I must create a system, or be enslaved by another man’s. I will not reason and compare: my business is to create.
We are not meant to resolve all contradictions but to live with them and rise above them. William Blake
The road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom You never know what is enough until you know what is more than enough. William Blake
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. William Blake
The man who never alters his opinion is like standing water, and breeds reptiles of the mind. William Blake
What is now proved was once only imagined. William Blake
Without contraries is no progression. Attraction and repulsion, reason and energy, love and hate, are necessary to human existence.William Blake
Love is weak when there is more doubt than there is trust, but love is most strong when you learn to trust even with all the doubts. If a thing loves, it is infinite. William Blake
You never know what is enough unless you know what is more than enough. William Blake
Make your own rules or be a slave to another man’s. William Blake
The fool who persists in his folly will become wise. William Blake
And we are put on this earth a little space that we might learn to bear the beams of love. William Blake
The person who does not believe in miracles surely makes it certain that he or she will never take part in one. William Blake
Opposition is true friendship. William Blake
As we are, so we see. William Blake
Truth can never be told so as to be understood and not be believed. William Blake
If the doors of perception were cleansed everything would appear to man as it is, infinite. William Blake
The tigers of wrath are wiser than the horses of instruction. William Blake
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. William Blake
It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend. William Blake
The imagination is not a state: it is the human existence itself. William Blake
Execution is the chariot of genius William Blake
There is no mistake so great as the mistake of not going on. William Blake
What is now proved was once only imagined. William Blake
The man who never alters his opinions is like standing water, and breeds reptiles of the mind. William Blake
To generalize is to be an idiot. William Blake
Enlightenment means taking full responsibility for your life. William Blake
Those who restrain desire do so because theirs is weak enough to be restrained William Blake
Some are born to sweet delight, Some are born to endless night. 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. William Blake
Nothing can be more contemptible than to suppose Public Records to be true. William Blake
Enlightenment means taking full responsibility for your life. William Blake
He who kisses joy as it flies by will live in eternity’s sunrise. William Blake
The road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom. You never know what is enough until you know what is more than enough. William Blake
I see through my eyes, not with them. William Blake
Improvement makes straight roads, but the crooked roads without improvement, are roads of genius. William Blake
When a sinister person means to be your enemy, they always start by trying to become your friend. William Blake
Better to shun the bait than struggle in the snare. William Blake
Celebrate your existence! William Blake
Think in the morning. Act at noon. Eat in the evening. Sleep in the night. William Blake
Why stand we here trembling around, calling on God for help, and not ourselves, in whom God dwells? William Blake
Great things are done when men and mountains meet. William Blake
He who sees the Infinite in all things sees God. William Blake
One thought fills immensity. William Blake
Better to shun the bait than struggle in the snare. William Blake
The essentials to happiness are something to love, something to do, and something to hope for. William Blake
Gratitude, in itself, is heaven. William Blake
The thankful receiver bears a plentiful harvest. 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. William Blake
I must create a system, or be enslaved by another man. I will not reason and compare: my business is to create. William Blake
Every man who is not an artist is a traitor to his own nature. William Blake
If the doors of perception were cleansed every thing would appear to man as it is, infinite.
The weak in courage is strong in cunning. William Blake
It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend.
To me this world is all one continued vision of fancy or imagination, and I feel flattered when I am told so. What is it sets Homer, Virgil and Milton in so high a rank of art? Why is the Bible more entertaining and instructive than any other book? Is it not because they are addressed to the imagination, which is spiritual sensation, and but immediately to the understanding or reason? William Blake
For all eternity, I forgive you and you forgive me.
Innocence dwells with Wisdom, but never with ignorance. William Blake
Those who control their passions do so because their passions are weak enough to be controlled.
You become what you behold. William Blake
The imagination is not a state: it is the human existence itself.
He whose face gives no light, shall never become a star. William Blake
I was walking among the fires of Hell, delighted with the enjoyments of Genius; which to Angels look like torment and insanity.
To generalize is to be an idiot. William Blake
To generalize is to be an idiot.
Those who restrain their desires, do so because theirs is weak enough to be restrained. William Blake
The glory of Christianity is to conquer by forgiveness.
They who forgive most shall be most forgiven. William Blake
I must create a system, or be enslaved by another man’s. I will not reason and compare: my business is to create.
Exuberance is beauty. William Blake
The road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom You never know what is enough until you know what is more than enough.
A truth that’s told with bad intent beats all the lies you can invent. William Blake
In the universe, there are things that are known, and things that are unknown, and in between, there are doors.
Do what you will this life’s a fiction, And is made up of contradiction. William Blake
That which can be made Explicit to the idiot is not worth my care.
No bird soars too high if he soars with his own wings. 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.
The thankful receiver bears a plentiful harvest. William Blake
A fool sees not the same tree that a wise man sees.
Think in the morning. Act at noon. Eat in the evening. Sleep at night. William Blake
Eternity is in love with the productions of time.
You’ve always had the power right there in your shoes, you just had to learn it for yourself. William Blake
Everything that lives, lives not alone, nor for itself.
A good local pub has much in common with a church, except that a pub is warmer, and there’s more conversation. William Blake
Always be ready to speak your mind and a base man will avoid you.
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. William Blake
Some are born to sweet delight, Some are born to endless night.
The busy bee has no time for sorrow. William Blake
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.
The strongest poison ever known came from Caesar’s laurel crown. William Blake
Great things are done when men and mountains meet.
Without Unceasing Practice nothing can be done. Practice is Art. If you leave off you are lost. William Blake
If a thing loves, it is infinite.
He who desires, but acts not, breeds pestilence. William Blake
Sweet babe, in thy face Soft desires I can trace, Secret joys and secret smiles, Little pretty infant wiles.
I must create a system, or be enslav’d by another man’s. William Blake
If others had not been foolish, we should be so.
Great things are done when men and mountains meet. William Blake
If the doors of perception were cleansed, everything would appear to man as it is infinite.
Poetry, Painting & Music, the three Powers in man of conversing with Paradise, which the flood did not sweep away. William Blake
As a man is, so he sees. As the eye is formed, such are its powers.
The Woman that does not love your Frowns Will never embrace your smiles. William Blake
Great things are done when men and mountains meet; this is not done by jostling in the street.
Shame is pride’s cloak. William Blake
A good local pub has much in common with a church, except that a pub is warmer, and there’s more conversation.
I must create a system or be enslaved by another mans; I will not reason and compare: my business is to create. 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.
I am in you and you in me, mutual in divine love. William Blake
Then cherish pity, lest you drive an angel from your door.
