Quotes by William Blake
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 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.
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.
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!
The bird a nest, the spider a web, man friendship.
No bird soars too high if he soars with his own wings.
Where mercy, love, and pity dwell, there God is dwelling too.
One thought fills immensity.
Prudence is a rich, ugly, old maid courted by incapacity.
A truth that's told with bad intent beats all the lies you can invent.
The glory of Christianity is to conquer by forgiveness.
Lives in eternity's sun rise.
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.
Art is the tree of life. Science is the tree of death.
Energy is an eternal delight, and he who desires, but acts not, breeds pestilence.
Travelers repose and dream among my leaves.
It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend.
Exuberance is beauty.
The hours of folly are measured by the clock; but of wisdom, no clock can measure.
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.
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 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.
Prisons are built with stones of Law. Brothels with the bricks of religion.
The weak in courage is strong in cunning.
Better murder an infant in its cradle than nurse an unacted desire.
