William Blake Quotes
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Those who restrain their desires, do so because theirs is weak enough to be restrained.
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Thou art a man God is no more Thy own humanity Learn to adore.
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And is he honest who resists his genius or conscience only for the sake of present ease or gratification.
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The roaring of lions, the howling of wolves, the raging of the stormy sea, and the destructive sword, are portions of eternity, too great for the eye of man.
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Let every Christian, as much as in him lies, engage himself openly and publicly, before all the World, in some mental pursuit for the Building up of Jerusalem.
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Every man who is not an artist is a traitor to his own nature.
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The Goddess Fortune is the devil's servant, ready to kiss any one's ass.
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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.
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How have you left the ancient love That bards of old enjoyed in you! The languid strings do scarcely move! The sound is forced, the notes are few!
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Acts themselves alone are history, and these are neither the exclusive property of Hume, Gibbon nor Voltaire, Echard, Rapin, Plutarch, nor Herodotus. Tell me the Acts, O historian, and leave me to reason upon them as I please; away with your reasoning and your rubbish. All that is not action is not worth reading.
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Innate ideas are in every man, born with him; they are truly himself. The man who says that we have no innate ideas must be a fool and knave, having no conscience or innate science.
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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.
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My silks and fine array, My smiles and languished air, By love are driv'n away And mournful lean Despair Brings me yew to deck my grave: Such end true lovers have.
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Enlightenment means taking full responsibility for your life.
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Always be ready to speak your mind, and a base man will avoid you.
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A DIVINE IMAGE Cruelty has a human heart, And Jealousy a human face; Terror the human form divine, And Secresy the human dress. The human dress is forged iron, The human form a fiery forge, The human face a furnace sealed, The human heart its hungry gorge.
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Do what you will this life's a fiction, And is made up of contradiction.
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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.
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Pity would be no more, If we did not make somebody poor. Mercy no more could be, If all were happy as we.
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How can a bird that is born for joy Sit in a cage and sing?
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I cry, Love! Love! Love! happy happy Love! free as the mountain wind!
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Harmony of colouring is destructive of art? it is like the smile of a fool.
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General knowledges are those knowledges that idiots possess.
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All futurity seems teeming with endless destruction never to be repelled; Desperate remorse swallows the present in a quenchless rage.