Quotes By William Blake

Christ's crucifix shall be made an excuse for executing criminals.

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.

It is not because angels are holier than men or devils that makes them angels, but because they do not expect holiness from one another, but from God only.

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

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

Opposition is true friendship.

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

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

Travelers repose and dream among my leaves.

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

The glory of Christianity is to conquer by forgiveness.

The soul of sweet delight, can never be defiled.

Energy is an eternal delight, and he who desires, but acts not, breeds pestilence.

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

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

The eye altering, alters all.

Excessive sorrow laughs. Excessive joy weeps.

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

Art can never exist without naked beauty displayed.

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

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 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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

One thought fills immensity.