Quotes by William Blake
He who binds to himself a joy doth the winged life destroy. But he who kisses the joy as it flies lives in Eternity's sunrise.
Love seeketh not itself to please, but for another gives its ease.
What seems to be, is, to those to whom it seems to be, and is productive of the most dreadful consequences to those to whom it seems to be, even of torments, despair, eternal death.
I see every thing I paint in this world, but everybody does not see alike. 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.
If the doors of perception were cleansed every thing would appear to man as it is, infinite.
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 dispite.
He's a Blockhead who wants a proof of what heCan't PerceiveAnd he's a Fool who tries to make such aBlockhead believe.
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.
He who has suffered you to impose on him knows you.
A truth thats told with bad intent, beats all the lies you can invent
Christianity is art and not money. Money is its curse.
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.
The road to excess leads to the palace of wisdom.
Men are admitted into Heaven not because they have curbed and governed their passions or have no passions, but because they have cultivated their understandings. The treasures of Heaven are not negations of passion, but realities of intellect, from which all the passions emanate uncurbed in their eternal glory. The fool shall not enter into Heaven let him be ever so holy.
If the doors of perception were cleansed every thing would appear to man as it is: infinite. For man has closed himself up, till he sees all things thro' narrow chinks of his cavern.
If the doors of perception were cleansed every thing would appear to man as it is, infinite. For man has closed himself up, till he sees all things thru' narrow chinks of his cavern
If the doors of perception were cleansed everything would appear to man as it is, infinite.
Opposition is true friendship.
To create a little flower is the labor of ages.
Can I see another's woe, / And not be in sorrow too?
Prepare your hearts for Death's cold hand! prepareYour souls for flight, your bodies for the earth;Prepare your arms for glorious victory;Prepare your eyes to meet a holy God!Prepare, prepare!
Without contraries is no progression. Attraction and repulsion, reason and energy, love and hate, are necessary to human existence.
They suppose that Woman's Love is Sin; in consequence all the Loves and Graces with them are Sin.
'Break this heavy chain That does freeze my bones around....
Children of the future AgeReading this indignant page,Know that in a former timeLove! sweet Love! was thought a crime.
