Quotes by
William Blake |
1757-1827 , English poet & painter
English poet, painter, and printmaker. Largely unrecognized during his lifetime, Blake is now considered a seminal figure in the history of the poetry and visual arts of the Romantic Age. | 56 quotes | 8,759 visits |
Quotations
| • | When a sinister person means to be your enemy, they always start by trying to become your friend. 22 |
| • | When I tell any Truth it is not for the sake of convincing those who do not know it but for the sake of defending those who do. 20 |
| • | The nakedness of woman is the work of God. 19 |
| • | Make your own rules or be a slave to another man's. 17 |
| • | Prisons are built with stones of law; brothels with bricks of religion. 12 |
| • | In the universe, there are things that are known, and things that are unknown, and in between, there are doors. 11 |
| • | General Knowledges are those Knowledges that Idiots possess. 10 |
| • | If the doors of perception were cleansed, everything would appear to man as it is: infinite. 9 |
| • | Every harlot was a virgin once. 9 |
| • | Truth can never be told so as to be understood and not be believed. 7 |
| • | I myself do nothing. The Holy Spirit accomplishes all through me. 7 |
| • | The weak in courage is strong in cunning. 7 |
| • | Art is the tree of life. Science is the tree of death. 6 |
| • | Excessive sorrow laughs. Excessive joy weeps. 5 |
| • | Do what you will, this world's a fiction and is made up of contradiction. 5 |
| • | Eternity is in love with the productions of time. 5 |
| • | Joys impregnate. Sorrows bring forth. 4 |
| • | Shame is pride's cloak. 4 |
| • | Better to shun the bait than struggle in the snare. 4 |
| • | A fool sees not the same tree that a wise man sees. 4 |
| • | Mercy is the golden chain by which society is bound together. 4 |
| • | One Power alone makes a Poet: Imagination. The Divine Vision. 4 |
| • | The bird a nest, the spider a web, man friendship. 4 |
| • | He who loves his enemies betrays his friends; this surely is not what Jesus meant. 4 |
| • | Mysteries are not to be solved. They eye goes blind when it only wants to see why. 4 |
| • | The most sublime act is to set another before you. 4 |
| • | Everything to be imagined is an image of truth. 4 |
| • | 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. 4 |
| • | What is grand is necessarily obscure to weak men. That which can be made explicit to the idiot is not worth my care. 4 |
| • | If the fool would persist in his folly he would become wise. 4 |
| • | Art can never exist without Naked Beauty displayed. 4 |
| • | The true method of knowledge is experiment. 4 |
| • | It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend. 4 |
| • | First thought is best in Art, second in other matters. 3 |
| • | Expect poison from the standing water. 3 |
| • | He who would do good to another must do it in minute particulars. 3 |
| • | Knowledge is Life with wings 3 |
| • | He whose face gives no light, shall never become a star. 3 |
| • | Poetry, Painting & Music, the three powers in man of conversing with paradise, which the flood did not sweep away. 3 |
| • | You never know what is enough unless you know what is more than enough. 3 |
| • | The tygers of wrath are wiser than the horses of instruction. 3 |
| • | Think in the morning. Act in the noon. Eat in the evening. Sleep in the night. 3 |
| • | The road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom. 3 |
| • | The man who never alters his opinion is like standing water, and breeds reptiles of the mind. 3 |
| • | Without contraries there is no progression. Attraction and repulsion, reason and energy, love and hate are necessary to human existence. 3 |
| • | Active Evil is better than Passive Good. 3 |
| • | The goddess fortune is the devil’s servant ready to kiss any ones arse. 3 |
Quotes in Verse
| • | 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. 9 |
| • | Tyger! Tyger! burning bright In the forests of the night, What immortal hand or eye Could frame thy fearful symmetry? 8 |
| • | Some are born to sweet delight. Some are born to endless night. 8 |
| • | A truth that's told with bad intent Beats all the lies you can invent. 6 |
| • | Mercy, pity, and peace, Are the world's release. 5 |
| • | More! More! is the cry of a mistaken soul. 5 |
| • | When nations grow old, the Arts grow cold, And Commerce settles on every tree. 5 |
| • | If the Sun and Moon should ever doubt, they'd immediately go out. 4 |
| • | Love seeketh only self to please, To bind another to its delight, Joys in another's loss of ease, And builds a Hell in Heaven's despite. 3 |
