Quotes By William Blake

What is now proved was once only imagined.

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 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.

To generalize is to be an idiot.

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

I have no name: I am but two days old. What shall I call thee? I happy am, Joy is my name. Sweet joy befall thee!

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

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.

Travelers repose and dream among my leaves.

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

The glory of Christianity is to conquer by forgiveness.

Lives in eternity's sun rise.

Every harlot was a virgin once.

In seed time learn, in harvest teach, in winter enjoy.

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

The weak in courage is strong in cunning.

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

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.

The true method of knowledge is experiment.

Better murder an infant in its cradle than nurse an unacted desire.

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

The thankful receiver bears a plentiful harvest.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

If a thing loves, it is infinite.