William Blake Quotes (334 Quotes)

You throw the sand against the windAnd the wind blows it back again.

Seek Love in the pity of others' woe,In the gentle relief of another's care,In the darkness of night and the winter's snow,In the naked and outcast, seek Love there

Bring me my chariot of fire.

My silks and fine array, My smiles and languished air, By love are driv'n away And mournful lean Despair Brings me yew to deck my grave Such end true lovers have.

The fields from Islington to Marybone, To Primrose Hill and Saint John's Wood, Were builded over with pillars of gold And there Jerusalem's pillars stood.

The weak in courage is strong in cunning.

Lo now the direful monster, whose skin clings To his strong bones, strides o'er the groaning rocks He withers all in silence, and his hand Unclothes the earth, and freezes up frail life.

Energy is eternal delight.

His whole life is an epigram smart, smooth and neatly penned, Plaited quite neat to catch applause, with a hang noose at the end.

The road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom.

Pay attention to minute particulars. Take care of the little ones. Generalization and abstraction are The plea of the hypocrite, scoundrel, and knave.

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

If the lion was advised by the fox, he would be cunning.

I was in a Printing-house in Hell, and saw the method in which knowledge is transmitted from generation to generation.

Damn braces. Bless relaxes.

Then old Nobodaddy aloft Farted and belched and coughed, And said, 'I love hanging and drawing and quartering Every bit as well as war and slaughtering.'

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

Let every Christian, as much as in him lies, engage himself openly and publicly, before all the World, in some mental pursuit for the Building up of Jerusalem.

I thought Love lived in the hot sunshine,But O, he lives in the moony lightI thought to find Love in the heat of day,But sweet Love is the comforter of night.

Improvement makes straight roads but the crooked roads without improvement are roads of genius.

The human mind cannot go beyond the gift of God, the Holy Ghost. To suppose that art can go beyond the finest specimens of art that are now in the world is not knowing what art is it is being blind to the gifts of the spirit.

Then cherish pity, lest you drive an angel from your door.

And canst Thou pity and forgive?

As the air to a bird or the sea to a fish, so is contempt to the contemptible.

You cannot have Liberty in this world without what you call Moral Virtue, and you cannot have Moral Virtue without the slavery of that half of the human race who hate what you call Moral Virtue.

Every wolf 's and lion's howl Raises from Hell a human soul.

To the eyes of a miser a guinea is more beautiful than the sun, and a bag worn with the use of money has more beautiful proportions than a vine filled with grapes.

And all calld it, The Net of Religion

For he hears the lambs innocent call.And he hears the ewes tender reply.He is watchful while they are in peace.For they know when their Shepherd is nigh.

They said this mystery never shall cease the priest promotes war, and the soldier peace

Tools were made and born were hands every farmer understands.

Jesus was all virtue, and acted from impulse, not from rules.

None but blockheads copy each other.

If the sun and moon should doubt they'd immediately go out.

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.

The pride of the peacock is the glory of God. The lust of the goat is the bounty of God. The wrath of the lion is the wisdom of God. The nakedness of woman is the work of God.

And we are put on earth a little spaceThat we may learn to bear the beams of love.

The countless gold of a merry heart,The rubies and pearls of a loving eye,The indolent never can bring to the mart,Nor the secret hoard up in his treasury.

All futurity seems teeming with endless destruction never to be repelled Desperate remorse swallows the present in a quenchless rage.

The strongest poison ever known came from Caesar's laurel crown.

The eyes of fire, the nostrils of air, the mouth of war, the beard of earth.

Some say that happiness is not good for mortals, they ought to be answered that sorrow is not fit for immortals is utterly useless to any one a blight never does good to a tree, if a blight kill not a tree but it still bear fruit, let none say that the fruit was in consequence of the blight.

O Autumn, laden with fruit, and stained With the blood of the grape, pass not, but sit Beneath my shady roof there thou may'st rest, And tune thy jolly voice to my fresh pipe And all the daughters of the year shall dance Sing now the lusty song of fruit and flowers.

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

Those who restrain their desires, do so because theirs is weak enough to be restrained.

He who sees the Infinite in all things, sees God.

Every thing possible to be believed is an image of truth.

The look of love alarms
Because 'tis fill'd with fire;
But the look of soft deceit
Shall Win the lover's hire.

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.

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