William Blake famous quotes

What is now proved was once only imagined.
-- William Blake

#Positive #Spiritual #Positivity

The thankful receiver bears a plentiful harvest.
-- William Blake

#Happiness #Thanksgiving #Thankful

He who kisses joy as it flies by will live in eternity's sunrise.
-- William Blake

#Kissing #Joy #Sunrise

You never know what is enough unless you know what is more than enough.
-- William Blake

#Wisdom #Knowledge #Thought Provoking

Gratitude is heaven itself.
-- William Blake

#Gratitude #Heaven

No bird soars too high if he soars with his own wings.
-- William Blake

#Love #Motivational #Cute

If a thing loves, it is infinite.
-- William Blake

#Love #Educational #Philosophy

It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend.
-- William Blake

#Friendship #Forgiveness #Depressing

God appears, and God is Light, to those poor souls who dwell in Night; but does a Human Form display to those who dwell in realms of Day.
-- William Blake

#Night #Light #Soul

The imagination is not a state: it is the human existence itself.
-- William Blake

#Imagination #States #Existence

When I tell the truth, it is not for the sake of convincing those who do not know it, but for the sake of defending those that do.
-- William Blake

#Trust #Courage #Truth

The man who never alters his opinions is like standing water, and breeds reptiles of the mind.
-- William Blake

#Change #Wisdom #Men

If the doors of perception were cleansed everything would appear to man as it is, infinite.
-- William Blake

#Inspirational #Life #Spiritual

Art can never exist without naked beauty displayed.
-- William Blake

#Beauty #Art #Creative

They who forgive most shall be most forgiven.
-- William Blake

#Forgiveness #Forgiving #Forgiven

The glory of Christianity is to conquer by forgiveness.
-- William Blake

#Faith #Forgiveness #Christian Inspirational

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.
-- William Blake

#Life #Happiness #Happy

The road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom.
-- William Blake

#Life #Greed #Experience

Think in the morning. Act in the noon. Eat in the evening. Sleep in the night.
-- William Blake

#Good Morning #Happiness #Sleep

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.
-- William Blake

#Crush #Philosophy #Writing

It is not because angels are holier than men or devils that makes them angels, but because they do not expect holiness from one another, but from God only.
-- William Blake

#Angel #Men #Devil

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.
-- William Blake

#Art #Aggravation #Empires

Children of the future age Reading this indignant page Know that in a former time Love, sweet love, was thought a crime
-- William Blake

#Sweet #Children #Reading

Those who restrain desire, do so because theirs is weak enough to be restrained; and the restrainer or reason usurps its place & governs the unwilling. And being restrain'd it by degrees becomes passive till it is only the shadow of desire.
-- William Blake

#Desire #Shadow #Degrees

Poetry fettered, fetters the human race. Nations are destroyed or flourish in proportion as their poetry, painting, and music are destroyed or flourish.
-- William Blake

#Race #Painting #Proportion

He who desires, but acts not, breeds pestilence.
-- William Blake

#Life #Desire #Acting

You throw the sand against the wind and the wind blows it back again.
-- William Blake

#Blow #Wind #Sand

For everything that lives is holy, life delights in life.
-- William Blake

#Life #Growth #Delight

The cistern contains: The fountain overflows.
-- William Blake

#God #Fountain #Overflow

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

#Maids #Ugly #Action

Travelers repose and dream among my leaves.
-- William Blake

#Dream #Travel #Journey

But if at church they would give some ale. And a pleasant fire our souls to regale. We'd sing and we'd pray all the live long day, Nor ever once from the church to stray.
-- William Blake

#Beer #Fire #Giving

Poetry fettered fetters the human race.
-- William Blake

#Race #Poetry #Humans

Every harlot was a virgin once.
-- William Blake

#Artist #Innocence #Harlots

Enlightenment means taking full responsibility for your life.
-- William Blake

#Responsibility #Mean #Enlightenment

I myself do nothing. The Holy Spirit accomplishes all through me.
-- William Blake

#Spiritual #Art #Holy Spirit

Never seek to tell thy love; Love that never told can be. For the gentle wind does move silently.. invisibly.
-- William Blake

#Moving #Wind #Doe

And is he honest who resists his genius or conscience only for the sake of present ease or gratification
-- William Blake

#Ease #Sake #Genius

The eagle never lost so much time as when he submitted to learn of the crow
-- William Blake

#Life #Time #Eagles

When nations grow old the Arts grow cold And commerce settles on every tree
-- William Blake

#Art #Business #Tree

In the universe, there are things that are known, and things that are unknown, and in between, there are doors.
-- William Blake

#Inspirational #Life #Adventure

Better to shun the bait than struggle in the snare.
-- William Blake

#Struggle #Bait #Snares

Some are born to sweet delight, Some are born to endless night.
-- William Blake

#Sweet #Night #Delight

The Sick Rose O Rose, thou art sick. The invisible worm That flies in the night In the howling storm Has found out thy bed Of crimson joy, And his dark secret love Does thy life destroy.
-- William Blake

#Life #Art #Dark

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.
-- William Blake

#Passion #Reality #Men

Improvement makes strait roads, but the crooked roads without Improvement, are roads of Genius.
-- William Blake

#Genius #Talent #Improvement

Thy friendship oft has made my heart to ache: do be my enemy for friendship's sake.
-- William Blake

#Friendship #Loyalty #Heart

Expect poison from the standing water.
-- William Blake

#Rain #Rivers #Water

The moon, like a flower in heaven's high bower, with silent delight sits and smiles on the night.
-- William Blake

#Flower #Night #Moon

For all eternity, I forgive you and you forgive me.
-- William Blake

#Forgive Me #Forgiving #I Forgive You

The most sublime act is to set another before you.
-- William Blake

#Sublime

A good local pub has much in common with a church, except that a pub is warmer, and there's more conversation.
-- William Blake

#Beer #Church #Common

The busy bee has no time for sorrow.
-- William Blake

#Time #Sorrow #Bees

Where mercy, love, and pity dwell, there God is dwelling too.
-- William Blake

#Love #Dwelling #House

I must create a system or be enslaved by another mans; I will not reason and compare: my business is to create.
-- William Blake

#Art #Business #Creativity

As a man is, so he sees. As the eye is formed, such are its powers.
-- William Blake

#Eye #Men #Vision

Always be ready to speak your mind, and a base man will avoid you.
-- William Blake

#Truth #Men #Mind

Active Evil is better than Passive Good.
-- William Blake

#Thought Provoking #Evil #Passive

He who doubts from what he sees Will ne'er believe, do what you please.
-- William Blake

#Believe #Doubt #Please

I am in you and you in me, mutual in divine love.
-- William Blake

#Love #Divinity #Divine

Opposition is true friendship.
-- William Blake

#Friendship #Artist #True Friendship

To generalize is to be an idiot.
-- William Blake

#Wisdom #Smart #Teaching

In seed time learn, in harvest teach, in winter enjoy.
-- William Blake

#Life #Thinking Of You #Nature

If the Sun and Moon should ever doubt, they'd immediately go out.
-- William Blake

#Inspiring #Moon #Doubt

Abstinence sows sand all over The ruddy limbs and flaming hair, But desire gratified Plants fruits of life and beauty there.
-- William Blake

#Life #Hair #Desire

Celebrate your existence!
-- William Blake

#Shining #Celebrate #Existence

As a man is, so he sees.
-- William Blake

#Motivational #Men #Thought Provoking

The pride of the peacock is the glory of God.
-- William Blake

#Pride #Glory #Glory Of God

I see through my eyes, not with them.
-- William Blake

#Eye #Through My Eyes

A truth that's told with bad intent beats all the lies you can invent.
-- William Blake

#Inspirational #Funny #Fake People

Great things are done when men and mountains meet.
-- William Blake

#Sports #Determination #Men

To the eyes of the man of imagination, nature is imagination itself.
-- William Blake

#Eye #Men #Imagination

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

#Men #Atheism

The man who never in his mind and thoughts travel'd to heaven is no artist.
-- William Blake

#Men #Artist #Heaven

The tigers of wrath are wiser than the horses of instruction.
-- William Blake

#Wise #Wisdom #Horse

You become what you behold.
-- William Blake

#Inspiration #Addiction

Exuberance is beauty.
-- William Blake

#Happiness #Beauty #Gratitude

Fun I love, but too much fun is of all things the most loathsome. Mirth is better than fun, and happiness is better than mirth.
-- William Blake

#Love #Fun #Too Much

The true method of knowledge is experiment.
-- William Blake

#Knowledge #Experience #Action

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

#Inspirational #Artist #Thought Provoking

Why stand we here trembling around, calling on God for help, and not ourselves, in whom God dwells?
-- William Blake

#God #Calling #Helping

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

#Gratitude #Thankfulness #Delight

He whose face gives no light, shall never become a star.
-- William Blake

#Happiness #Stars #Light

As the caterpillar chooses the fairest leaves to lay her eggs on, so the priest lays his curse on the fairest joys.
-- William Blake

#Eggs #Joy #Heaven

Does a firm persuasion that a thing is so, make it so?" He replied, "All poets believe it does. And in ages of imagination, this firm persuasion removes mountains; but many are not capable of firm persuasion of anything.
-- William Blake

#Believe #Imagination #Age

The bird a nest, the spider a web, man friendship.
-- William Blake

#Friendship #Best Friend #Happiness

The soul of sweet delight, can never be defiled.
-- William Blake

#Sweet #Artist #Soul

The fool who persists in his folly will become wise.
-- William Blake

#Wise #Wisdom #Stupid

Tyger! Tyger! burning bright In the forests of the night, What immortal hand or eye Could frame thy fearful symmetry?
-- William Blake

#Eye #Night #Hands

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.
-- William Blake

#Beautiful #Money #Eye

Energy is eternal delight.
-- William Blake

#Philosophy #Medicine #Joy

A robin redbreast in a cage Puts all heaven in a rage.
-- William Blake

#Animal #Heaven #Humanity

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 despair.
-- William Blake

#Broken Heart #Giving #Heaven

Life delights in life.
-- William Blake

#Delight

Drive your cart and plow over the bones of the dead.
-- William Blake

#Death #Dying #Bones

To create a little flower is the labour of ages.
-- William Blake

#Happiness #Nature #Flower

First thought is best in Art, second in other matters.
-- William Blake

#Art #Writing #Matter

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.
-- William Blake

#Pride #Wrath #Lust

The nakedness of woman is the work of God.
-- William Blake

#Beauty

He who sees the Infinite in all things sees God.
-- William Blake

#Infinite