William Blake Quotes (334 Quotes)

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

I give you the end of a golden string Only wind it into a ball, It will lead you in at Heaven's gate, Built in Jerusalem's wall.

Bring me my bow of burning gold!

He sits down with holy fears.

God forbid that Truth should be confined to Mathematical Demonstration.

Expect poison from the standing water.

And the gates of this Chapel were shut, And Thou shalt not' writ over the door.

The caterpillar on the leaf Repeats to thee thy mother's grief.

Pity would be no more If we did not make somebody poor And Mercy no more could be If all were as happy as we.

The arts of peace are great,And no less glorious than those of war.

I sought my soul, But my soul I could not see. I sought my God, But my God eluded me. I sought my brother, And I found all three.

They suppose that Woman's Love is Sin in consequence all the Loves Graces with them are Sin.

And Father, how can I love youOr any of my brothers moreI love you like the little birdThat picks up crumbs around the door.

I cry, Love Love Love happy happy Love free as the mountain wind

To Mercy, Pity, Peace, and Love All pray in their distress.

I heard an Angel singing; When the day was springing, Mercy, Pity, Peace; Is the world's release.

Wandering in many a coral grove, Fair Nine, forsaking Poetry

He loves to sit and hear me sing, Then, laughing, sports and plays with me Then stretches out my golden wing, And mocks my loss of liberty.

He who shall teach the child to doubt The rotting grave shall ne'er get out.

The crow wished everything was black, the owl, that every thing was white.

Tiger Tiger burning bright In the forests of the night, What immortal hand or eye Could frame thy fearful symmetry

Imitation is criticism.

When wilt thou pity as I forgive?

Puts all Heaven in a Rage.

Burnt the fire of thine eyes?

The eye altering, alters all.

Enthusiastic Admiration is the first Principle of Knowledge and its last.

To Mercy Pity Peace and Love.

There can be no Good Will. Will is always Evil it is persecution to others or selfishness.

Im sure this Jesus will not do Either for Englishman or Jew.

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.

Travelers repose and dream among my leaves.

The world of imagination is the world of eternity. It is the divine bosom into which we shall all go after the death of the vegetated i.e. mortal body. This world of imagination is infinite and eternal, whereas the world of generation is finite and temporal. There exist in that eternal world the eternal realities of everything which we see reflected in this vegetable glass of nature.

O Elenor, weak woman, fill'd with woe!

Piping down the valleys wild, Piping songs of pleasant glee, On a cloud I saw a child, And he laughing said to me 'Pipe a song about a Lamb.' So I piped with merry cheer 'Piper, pipe that song again.' So I piped he wept to hear.

Let man wear the fell of the lion.

To generalize is to be an idiot.

'What,' it will be questioned, 'when the sun rises, do you not see a round disc of fire somewhat like a guinea' 'O no, no, I see an innumerable company of the heavenly host crying, Holy, Holy, Holy is the Lord God Almighty'

I am really sorry to see my countrymen trouble themselves about politics. If men were wise, the most arbitrary princes could not hurt them. If they are not wise, the freest government is compelled to be a tyranny. Princes appear to me to be fools. Houses of Commons and Houses of Lords appear to me to be fools they seem to me to be something else besides human life.

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!

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

Those who control their passions do so because their passions are weak enough to be controlled.

What is the Divine Spirit Is the Holy Ghost any other than an Intellectual fountain

The foundation of empire is art and science. Remove them or degrade them, and the empire is no more. Empire follows art and not vice versa as Englishmen suppose.

The best wine is the oldest.

Innate ideas are in every man, born with him they are truly himself. The man who says that we have no innate ideas must be a fool and knave, having no conscience or innate science.

Every harlot was a virgin once.

The Heavens are not clean in Thy sight.

Where man is not nature is barren.

Image of weakness, art thou but a Worm?