William Blake Quotes (334 Quotes)


    Sing louder around To the bells cheerful sound, While our sports shall be seen, On the echoing green.

    Art can never exist without naked beauty displayed.

    And I made a rural pen, And I stained the water clear, And I wrote my happy songs Every Child may joy to hear.

    Prisons are built with stones of Law. Brothels with the bricks of religion.

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


    He's a Blockhead who wants a proof of what heCan't PerceiveAnd he's a Fool who tries to make such aBlockhead believe.

    The most sublime act is to set another before you.

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


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



    Man has closed himself up, till he sees all things thro' narrow chinks of his cavern.

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

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

    A man's worst enemies are thoseOf his own house and familyAnd he who makes his law a curse,By his own law shall surely die.

    Then every man of every clime,That prays in his distress,Prays to the human form divine,Love, Mercy, Pity, Peace.

    The inquiry in England is not whether a man has talents and genius, but whether he is passive and polite and a virtuous ass and obedient to noblemen's opinions in art and science. If he is, he is a good man. If not, he must be starved.

    Didst close my Tongue in senseless clay
    And me to Mortal Life betray:
    The Death of Jesus set me free.

    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.

    Mere enthusiasm is the all in all. . . . Passion and expression are beauty itself.

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

    I see the Fourfold Man the Humanity in deadly sleep, And its fallen Emanation, the Spectre and its cruel Shadow. I see the Past, Present, and Future existing all at once Before me.


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

    The rat, the mouse, the fox, the rabbet watch the roots.

    The generations of men run on in the tide of time, but leave their destined lineaments permanent for ever and ever.

    Man was made for joy and woe. And when this we rightly know Through the world we safely go.

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



    This life's dim windows of the soul. Distorts the heavens from pole to pole. And leads you to believe a lie when you see with, not through, the eye.

    We are led to believe a lie When we see not through the eye.

    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.

    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.

    Children of the future AgeReading this indignant page,Know that in a former timeLove sweet Love was thought a crime.

    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.


    My mother groaned my father wept. Into the dangerous world I leapt Helpless, naked, piping loud, Like a fiend hid in a cloud.

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

    The globe of life blood trembled
    Branching out into roots;
    Fib'rous, writhing upon the winds;
    Fibres of blood, milk and tears;
    In pangs, eternity on eternity.



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

    In every cry of every man,In every infant's cry of fear,In every voice, in every ban,The mind-forged manacles I hear.

    The glory of Christianity is to conquer by forgiveness.

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

    Never seek to tell thy love Love that never told can be For the gentle wind does move Silently, invisibly. I told my love, I told my love, I told her all my heart Trembling, cold, in ghastly fears Ah, she doth depart. Soon as she was gone from me A traveler came by Silently, invisibly He took her with a sigh.

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

    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.


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