William Blake Quotes

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

The soul of sweet delight, can never be defiled.

Man has no Body distinct from his Soul; for that called Body is a portion of Soul discerned by the five Senses, the chief inlets of Soul in this age.

One thought fills immensity.

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.

If the Sun and Moon should ever doubt, they’d immediately go out.

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

Great things are done when men and mountains meet.

Travelers repose and dream among my leaves.

It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend.

Excessive sorrow laughs. Excessive joy weeps.

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

The road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom.

The thankful receiver bears a plentiful harvest.

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

If the fool would persist in his folly he would become wise.

The eye altering, alters all.

Lives in eternity‘s sun rise.

The weak in courage is strong in cunning.

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

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.

Fun I love, but too much fun is of all things the most loathsome. Mirth is better than fun, and happiness is better than mirth.

Active Evil is better than Passive Good.

He who desires, but acts not, breeds pestilence.

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

Every harlot was a virgin once.

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

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

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.

The true method of knowledge is experiment.

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!

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.

If a thing loves, it is infinite.

To generalize is to be an idiot.

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

The fool who persists in his folly will become wise.

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

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.

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

Always be ready to speak your mind, and a base man will avoid you.

Do what you will, this world‘s a fiction and is made up of contradiction.

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

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

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

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.