William Blake Quotes
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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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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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Enlightenment means taking full responsibility for your life.
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I have mental joys and mental health, Mental friends and mental wealth, I've a wife that I love and that loves me; I've all but riches bodily.
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Imagination is the real and eternal world of which this vegetable universe is but a faint shadow.
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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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The countless gold of a merry heart, The rubies and pearls of a loving eye, The indolent never can bring to the mart, Nor the secret hoard up in his treasury.
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Every man who is not an artist is a traitor to his own nature.
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Some are born to sweet delight, Some are born to endless night.
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Father, O father! what do we here In this land of unbelief and fear?
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Nothing can be more contemptible than to suppose Public Records to be true.
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I will not cease from mental fight Nor shall my sword sleep in my hand.
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Time is the Mercy of Eternity.
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The busy bee has no time for sorrow.
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And I made a rural pen, And I stained the water clear, And I wrote my happy songs Every Child may joy to hear.
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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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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 they are not wise, the freest government is compelled to be a tyranny. Princes appear to me to be fools. Houses of Commons and Houses of Lords appear to me to be fools; they seem to me to be something else besides human life.
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General knowledges are those knowledges that idiots possess.
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I myself do nothing. The Holy Spirit accomplishes all through me.
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All the destruction in Christian Europe has arisen from deism, which is natural religion.
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For I dance And drink and sing, Till some blind hand Shall brush my wing. If thought is life And strength and breath And the want Of thought is death Then am I A happy fly If I live Or if I die.
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Prudence is a rich, ugly, old maid courted by incapacity.
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He who loves his enemies betrays his friends; this surely is not what Jesus meant.
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How can the bird that is born for joy Sit in a cage and sing? How can a child, when fears annoy, But droop his tender wing, And forget his youthful spring?