Quotes by William Blake
Where Mercy, Love, and Pity dwell There God is dwelling too.
I must create a system, or be enslaved by another man's.
I am in you and you in me, mutual in divine love.
When a man has married a wife, he finds out whether Her knees and elbows are only glued together.
"Little fly, thy summer's play My thoughtless hand has brushed away. Am not I a fly like thee? Or art not thou a man like me? For I dance and drink and sing, Till some blind hand shall brush my wing!"
Prepare your hearts for Death's cold hand! prepare Your souls for flight, your bodies for the earth;...
When Sir Joshua Reynolds died All Nature was degraded;
If others had not been foolish, we should be so.
To see a world in a Grain of Sand, And a Heaven in a Wild Flower, Hold Infinity in the palm of your hand, And eternity in an hour.
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...
Then my verse I dishonor, my pictures despise, my person degrade and my temper chastise; and the pen is my terror, the pencil my shame; and my talents I bury, and dead is my fame.
The man who never alters his opinions is like standing water, and breeds reptiles of the mind.
If thought is life And strength and breath,...
Humility is only doubt, / And does the sun and moon blot out.
Innocence dwells with Wisdom, but never with Ignorance.
If you have form'd a circle to go into, Go into it yourself, and see how you would do. They said this mystery never shall cease: The priest promotes war, and the soldier peace.
Great things are done when men and mountains meet. This is not done by jostling in the street.
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.
Nature in darkness groans and men are bound to sullen contemplation in the night: restless they turn on beds of sorrow; in their inmost brain feeling the crushing wheels, they rise, they write the bitter words of stern philosophy and knead the bread of knowledge with tears and groans.
He's a Blockhead who wants a proof of what he Can't Percieve And he's a Fool who tries to make such a Blockhead believe.
I have always found that angels have the vanity to speak of themselves as the only wise.
For Mercy has a human heartPity, a human face:And Love, the human form divine,And Peace, the human dress. Then every man of every clime,That prays in his distress,Prays to the human form divineLove Mercy Pity Peace.
To generalize is to be an idiot. To particularize is the alone distinction of merit. General knowledge are those knowledge that idiots possess.
"O life of this our Spring! why fades the lotus of the water? Why fade these children of the Spring,born but to smile and fall?
Every night and every morn some to misery are born Every morn and every night Some are born to sweet delight Some are born to endless night
