William Blake Quotes

When the voices of children are heard on the greenAnd laughing is heard on the hill,My heart is at rest within my breastAnd everything else is still.

God and His Priest and King,...make up a heaven of our misery.

How sweet I roamed from field to field, And tasted all the summer's pride, Till I the prince of love beheld, Who in the sunny beams did glide!

Such, such were the joys When we all, girls and boys, In our youth time were seen On the Echoing Green.

O God, protect me from my friends, that they have not power over me. Thou hast giv'n me power to protect myself from thy bitterest enemies.

For I dance And drink and sing, Till some blind hand Shall brush my wing. If thought is life And strength and breath And the want Of thought is death Then am I A happy fly If I live Or if I die

The mocker of Art is the mocker of Jesus.

excuse my enthusiasm or rather madness, for I am really drunk with intellectual vision whenever I take a pencil or graver into my hand.

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.

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

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

Did he smile his work to see? Did he who made the Lamb make thee?

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

For every thing that lives is Holy.

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

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.

The lamb misused breeds public strifeAnd yet forgives the butcher's knife.

How can the bird that is born for joySit in a cage and sing?How can a child, when fears annoy, But droop his tender wing, And forget his youthful spring?

I give you the end of a golden string, Only wind it into a ball, It will lead you in at Heaven's gateBuilt in Jerusalem's wall.

And Priests in black gowns, were walking their rounds, And binding with briars, my joys & desires.

He who replies to words of doubtdoth put the light of knowledge out.

Time is the mercy of Eternity without Time's swiftness/ Which is the swiftest of all things: all were eternal torment.

May God us keepFrom Single vision and Newton's sleep.

We live as One Man for contracting our infinite senses we behold multitude or expanding: we behold as one.

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

Did he who made the lamb make thee?

When nations grow old the Arts grow coldAnd commerce settles on every tree

Thou art a manGod is no moreThy own humanityLearn to adore

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

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

Active evil is better than passive good

For I dance And drink and sing, Till some blind hand Shall brush my wing.If thought is lifeAnd strength and breathAnd the wantOf thought is deathThen am IA happy flyIf I liveOr if I die

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.

The emmet's inch and eagle's mileMake lame philosophy to smile.He who doubts from what he seesWill ne'er believe, do what you please.- "Auguries of Innocence

There is a Moment in each Day that Satan cannot find

Energy is the only life and is from the Body and Reason is the bound or outward circumference of Energy.

The reason Milton wrote in fetters when he wrote of Angels & God, and at liberty when of Devils & Hell, is because he was a true Poet and of the Devil's party without knowing it.

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

If the doors of perception were cleansed every thing would appear to man as it is, Infinite. For man has closed himself up, till he sees all things thro' narrow chinks of his cavern.

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

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

Vision is the end of religion.

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

What is Above is Within ... the Circumference is Winthin, Without is formed the Selfish Center, and the Circumference still expands going forward to Eternity.

It is right it should be so Man was made for joy and woe And when this we rightly know Through the world we safely go.

He who desires but acts not breeds pestilence.

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.

Some are born to sweet delight Some are born to endless night.

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

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