Top 100 Quotes About William Blake
#1. A lot of poets too live on the margins of social acceptance, they certainly aren't in it for the money. William Blake - only his first book was legitimately published.
Jim Jarmusch
#2. He who kisses joy as it flies by will live in eternity's sunrise.
William Blake
#3. O Autumn, laden with fruit, and stained With the blood of the grape, pass not, but sit Beneath my shady roof; there thou may'st rest, And tune thy jolly voice to my fresh pipe; And all the daughters of the year shall dance! Sing now the lusty song of fruit and flowers.
William Blake
#4. O! he give to us his Joy
That our grief he may destroy;
Till our grief is fled and gone
He doth sit by us and moan.
William Blake
#6. Abstinence sows sand all over The ruddy limbs and flaming hair, But desire gratified Plants fruits of life and beauty there.
William Blake
#7. I myself do nothing. The Holy Spirit accomplishes all through me.
William Blake
#8. A man can't soar too high, when he flies with his own wings.
William Blake
#9. Do what you will, this world's a fiction and is made up of contradiction.
William Blake
#10. Down the winding cavern we groped our tedious way, till a void boundless as the nether sky appeared beneath us, and we held by the roots of trees and hung over this immensity; but I said: if you please we will commit ourselves to this void and see whether providence is here also.
William Blake
#11. Prepare your hearts for Death's cold hand! prepare
Your souls for flight, your bodies for the earth;
Prepare your arms for glorious victory;
Prepare your eyes to meet a holy God!
Prepare, prepare!
William Blake
#13. Sleep, sleep, beauty bright,Dreaming o'er the joys of night.Sleep, sleep: in thy sleepLittle sorrows sit and weep.
William Blake
#14. The Woman that does not love your Frowns Will never embrace your smiles.
William Blake
#15. 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.
William Blake
#16. When the doors of perception are cleansed, men will see things as they truly are, infinite.
William Blake
#17. Come live, and be merry, and join with me, To sing the sweet chorus of 'Ha ha he!
William Blake
#18. Naught can deform the human race Like to the armor's iron brace.
William Blake
#19. Make your own rules or be a slave to another man's.
William Blake
#20. Works of Art can only be produc'd in Perfection where the Man is either in Affluence or is Above the Care of it.
William Blake
#21. William Blake cursed the flesh for a clod,
Yet of some of his sayings we Moderns have heard tell:
'The nakedness of woman is the work of God',
Or that title
The Marriage of Heaven and Hell.
Allen Tate
#22. One Power alone makes a Poet: Imagination. The Divine Vision.
William Blake
#23. But when he has done this, let him not say that he knows better than his master, for he only holds a candle in sunshine.
William Blake
#24. Eternity is in love with the productions of time.
William Blake
#25. Hindsight is a wonderful thing but foresight is better, especially when it comes to saving life, or some pain!
William Blake
#26. If Christianity was morality, Socrates would be the Saviour.
William Blake
#27. Like a fiend in a cloud, With howling woe After night I do crowd And with night will go; I turn my back to the east, From whence comforts have increased; For light cloth seize my brain With frantic pain.
William Blake
#28. 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
#29. Man has no Body distinct from his soul; for that called Body is a portion of a Soul discerned by the five senses, the chief inlets of Soul in this age.
William Blake
#30. On no other ground
Can I sow my seed
Without tearing up
Some stinking weed.
William Blake
#31. 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
#32. To Chloe's breast young Cupid slily stole,
But he crept in at Myra's pocket-hole.
William Blake
#33. Just remember that William Blake wasn't even published in his lifetime. Ya gotta keep creating.
Kris Kristofferson
#34. The Britons (say historians) were naked, civilized men, learned, studious, abstruse in thought and contemplation; naked, simple, plain in their acts and manners; wiser than after ages.
William Blake
#35. If the lion was advised by the fox, he would be cunning.
William Blake
#36. We are here to learn to endure the beams of love.
William Blake
#37. O Earth, O Earth, return! Arise from out the dewy grass; Night is worn; And the morn Rises from the slumbrous mass.
William Blake
#38. The person who does not believe in miracles surely makes it certain that he or she will never take part in one.
William Blake
#39. I care not whether a man is good or evil; all that I care / Is whether he is a wise man or a fool. Go! put off holiness, / And put on intellect.
William Blake
#41. Without a use this shining woman lived - Or did she only live to be at death the food of worms.
William Blake
#42. What is grand is necessarily obscure to weak men. That which can be made explicit to the idiot is not worth my care.
William Blake
#44. Pay attention to minute particulars. Take care of the little ones. Generalization and abstraction are the plea of the hypocrite, scoundrel, and knave.
William Blake
#45. A musician, an artist, an architect: the man or woman who is not one of these is not a Christian.
William Blake
#46. Two more years were to go by before I knew anything about William Blake. Many years later, when his wife died, my godfather gave me the two books as a remembrance.
Laurence Housman
#47. Each man is haunted until his humanity awakens.
William Blake
#48. Little Lamb, who made thee? Dost thou know who made thee?
William Blake
#49. Colouring does not depend on where the colours are put, but on where the lights and darks are put, and all depends on form and outline, on where that is put.
William Blake
#50. I cry, Love! Love! Love! happy happy Love! free as the mountain wind!
William Blake
#51. Angels are happier than men and devils, because they are not always prying after good and evil in one another, and eating the tree of knowledge for Satan's gratification.
William Blake
#52. And I watered it in fears,
Night and morning with my tears;
And I sunned it with smiles,
And with soft deceitful wiles.
William Blake
#54. 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.
William Blake
#55. No bird soars too high if he soars with his own wings.
William Blake
#56. If a thing loves, it is infinite.
(Annotations to Swedenborg)
William Blake
#58. All pictures that's painted with sense and with thought / Are painted by madmen as sure as a groat; / For the greater the fool in the pencil more blest, / And when they are drunk they always paint best.
William Blake
#59. 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?
William Blake
#60. You never know what is enough unless you know what is more than enough.
William Blake
#61. Pity would be no more,
If we did not make somebody poor.
Mercy no more could be,
If all were happy as we.
William Blake
#62. Innocence dwells with Wisdom, but never with ignorance ...
William Blake
#63. O thou who passest through our valleys in Thy strength, curb thy fierce steeds, allay the heat That flames from their large nostrils! Thou, O Summer, Oft pitchest here thy golden tent, and oft Beneath our oaks hast slept, while we beheld With joy thy ruddy limbs and flourishing hair.
William Blake
#64. Harmony of colouring is destructive of art? it is like the smile of a fool.
William Blake
#65. It is an easy thing to talk of patience to the afflicted.
William Blake
#66. Every tear from every eyeBecomes a babe in eternity.
William Blake
#67. Although wine when it is read somewhat lacks the savour of wine when it is drunk, wine remains a very pleasant thing both to read about and to chat about.
William Blake
#68. He whose face gives no light, shall never become a star.
William Blake
#70. As a man is, so he sees. As the eye is formed, such are its powers.
William Blake
#71. 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
#72. Love is weak when there is more doubt than there is trust, but love is most strong when you learn to trust even with all the doubts. If a thing loves, it is infinite.
William Blake
#74. Rome & Greece swept Art into their maw & destroy'd it; a Warlike State never can produce Art. It will Rob & Plunder & accumulate into one place, & Translate & Copy & Buy & Sell & Criticize, but not Make.
William Blake
#76. [L]et light Rise from the chambers of the east, and bring The honey'd dew that cometh on waking day. O radiant morning ...
William Blake
#77. If others had not been foolish, we should be so.
William Blake
#78. I thought Love lived in the hot sunshine,
But O, he lives in the moony light!
I thought to find Love in the heat of day,
But sweet Love is the comforter of night.
William Blake
#79. Painters are noted for being dissipated and wild.
William Blake
#80. The Bat that flits at close of Eve
Has left the Brain that won't believe.
The Owl that calls upon the Night
Speaks the Unbeliever's fright.
William Blake
#81. A tyrant is the worst disease, and the cause of all others.
William Blake
#82. How do you know but ev'ry Bird that cuts the airy way,
Is an immense world of delight, clos'd by your senses five?
William Blake
#83. Excuse my enthusiasm or rather madness, for I am really drunk with intellectual vision whenever I take a pencil or graver into my hand.
William Blake
#84. Without Unceasing Practice nothing can be done. Practice is Art. If you leave off you are lost.
William Blake
#85. Some will say, Is not God alone the Prolific? I answer, God only Acts & Is, in existing beings or Men.
William Blake
#87. To see a world in a grain of sand and heaven in a wild flower Hold infinity in the palms of your hand and eternity in an hour.
William Blake
#89. 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
#90. The strongest poison ever known came from Caesar's laurel crown.
William Blake
#91. He who loves his enemies betrays his friends; this surely is not what Jesus meant.
William Blake
#93. Can I see a falling tear,
And not feel my sorrow's share?
William Blake
#94. Let men do their duty and the women will be such wonders; the female lives from the light of the male: see a male's female dependants, you know the man.
William Blake
#95. If you have form'd a Circle to go into, / Go into it yourself & see how you would do.
William Blake
#96. I started understanding William Blake and George Orwell more and more. It's amazing how we go to school when we're so young, read all of these books, just trying to memorize them. When you start to live, you don't have to memorize anything.
Benjamin Clementine
#97. We are not meant to resolve all contradictions but to live with them and rise above them.
William Blake
#98. Ages are All Equal. / But Genius is Always Above The Age.
William Blake
#99. Think not thou canst sigh a sigh
And thy maker is not by;
Think not thou canst weep a tear
And thy maker is not near.
William Blake
#100. And, father, how can I love you
Or any of my brothers more?
I love you like the little bird
That picks up crumbs around the door.
William Blake
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