William Blake Quotes

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  • You never know what is enough unless you know what is more than enough.

    William Blake, Michael Mason (1998). “Selected Poetry”, p.77, Oxford University Press, USA
  • Ah, sunflower, weary of time, Who countest the steps of the sun, Seeking after that sweet golden clime Where the traveller's journey is done; Where the youth pined away with desire And the pale virgin shrouded in snow Arise from their graves, and aspire Where my sunflower wishes to go.

    Sweet  
    'Songs of Experience' (1794) 'Ah, Sun-flower!'
  • Do what you will this life's a fiction, And is made up of contradiction.

    "The Selected Poems of William Blake".
  • Where there is money there is no art.

    Art  
  • And we are put on earth a little space, That we may learn to bear the beams of love.

    Love  
    "Complete Writings: With Variant Readings".
  • The world of imagination is the world of eternity.

    William Blake (1977). “The Portable William Blake”, p.446, Penguin
  • To my eye Rubens' colouring is most contemptible. His shadows are a filthy brown somewhat the colour of excrement.

    Eye  
    William Blake, David V. Erdman, Harold Bloom (1982). “The Complete Poetry and Prose of William Blake”, p.655, Univ of California Press
  • Prisons are built with stones of Law. Brothels with the bricks of religion.

    William Blake, “The Marriage Of Heaven And Hell”
  • None but blockheads copy each other.

    Art   Philosophy  
  • Heaven is in a grain of sand.

  • To Mercy, Pity, Peace and Love All pray in their distress, And to these virtues of delight Return their thankfulness.

    'Songs of Innocence' (1789) 'The Divine Image'
  • Does a firm persuasion that a thing is so, make it so?

    'The Marriage of Heaven and Hell' (1790-3) 'A Memorable Fancy' plates 12-13
  • Hindsight is a wonderful thing but foresight is better, especially when it comes to saving life, or some pain!

  • I must create a system, or be enslav'd by another man's.

    Men  
    William Blake, Morton D. Paley (1998). “Jerusalem: The Emanation of the Giant Albion”, p.144, Princeton University Press
  • Holy, holy, holy is the Lord God Almighty !

    'A Vision of the Last Judgement' (1810) in 'MS Note-Book' p. 95
  • And did those feet in ancient time Walk upon England's mountains green? And was the holy Lamb of God On England's pleasant pastures seen?

    Milton preface (1804 - 1810)
  • My Brother starv'd between two Walls,His Children's Cry my Soul appalls

    William Blake (2000). “The Selected Poems of William Blake”, p.135, Wordsworth Editions
  • 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.

    Nature   Moving   Eye  
    William Blake (1977). “The Portable William Blake”, p.136, Penguin
  • God and His Priest and King,...make up a heaven of our misery.

    William Blake, W. H. Stevenson (2007). “Blake: The Complete Poems”, p.170, Pearson Education
  • On no other ground Can I sow my seed Without tearing up Some stinking weed.

    William Blake, Michael Mason (1998). “Selected Poetry”, p.109, Oxford University Press, USA
  • The true method of knowledge is experiment.

    William Blake (2008). “The Complete Poetry and Prose of William Blake”, p.1, Univ of California Press
  • In your own bosom you bear your heaven and earth, And all you behold, though it appears without, It is within, in your imagination, Of which this world of mortality is but a shadow.

    William Blake, David Fuller (2008). “William Blake: Selected Poetry and Prose”, Longman Publishing Group
  • The crow wished everything was black, the Owl, that everything was white.

    Bird  
    William Blake, W. H. Stevenson (2007). “Blake: The Complete Poems”, p.116, Pearson Education
  • Man has no Body distinct from his Soul; for that called Body is a portion of Soul discerned by the five Senses, the chief inlets of Soul in this age.

    Life   Men   Soul  
    William Blake, Michael Mason (1998). “Selected Poetry”, p.75, Oxford University Press, USA
  • Christianity is art and not money. Money is its curse.

    Art  
    William Blake, David Fuller (2000). “William Blake: Selected Poetry and Prose”, p.360, Pearson Education
  • thus men forgot that all deities reside in the human breast.

    Men  
    William Blake, David Fuller (2000). “William Blake: Selected Poetry and Prose”, p.134, Pearson Education
  • The eye altering, alters all.

    Eye   Artist  
    The Mental Traveller
  • Think in the morning. Act in the noon. Eat in the evening. Sleep in the night.

    William Blake (2005). “Collected Poems”, p.167, Routledge
  • For the Eye altering alters all; The Senses roll themselves in fear And the flat Earth becomes a Ball.

    Eye  
    William Blake (2005). “Collected Poems”, p.123, Routledge
  • Does the Eagle know what is in the pit Or wilt thou go ask the Mole? Can Wisdom be put in a silver rod, Or Love in a golden bowl?

    'The Book of Thel' (1789) plate i 'Thel's Motto'
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