Quotes By William Blake

The soul of sweet delight, can never be defiled.

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

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 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.

He who would do good to another must do it in Minute Particulars: general Good is the plea of the scoundrel, hypocrite, and flatterer, for Art and Science cannot exist but in minutely organized Particulars.

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

The eye altering, alters all.

Excessive sorrow laughs. Excessive joy weeps.

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

Want of money and the distress of a thief can never be alleged as the cause of his thieving, for many honest people endure greater hardships with fortitude. We must therefore seek the cause elsewhere than in want of money, for that is the miser's passion, not the thief s.

Art can never exist without naked beauty displayed.

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.

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

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 in his mind and thoughts travel'd to heaven is no artist.

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

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!

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

To see the world in a grain of sand, and to see heaven in a wild flower, hold infinity in the palm of your hands, and eternity in an hour.

One thought fills immensity.

Great things are done when men and mountains meet.

Active Evil is better than Passive Good.

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

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 road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom.

To generalize is to be an idiot.

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