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William Blake Quotes & Sayings

When thou seest an eagle, thou seest a portion of genius; lift up thy head!
William Blake in BIRDS

My mother groaned, my father wept, into the dangerous world I leapt; helpless, naked, piping loud, like a fiend hid in a cloud.
William Blake in BIRTH

Nothing can be more contemptible than to suppose Public Records to be true.
William Blake in BUREAUCRACY

Commerce is so far from being beneficial to arts, or to empire, that it is destructive of both, as all their history shows, for the above reason of individual merit being its great hatred. Empires flourish till they become commercial, and then they are s
William Blake in BUSINESS

Great things are done when men and mountains meet. This is not done by jostling in the street.
William Blake in CHALLENGES

Christianity is art and not money. Money is its curse.
William Blake in CHRISTIANS AND CHRISTIANITY

Then my verse I dishonor, my pictures despise, my person degrade and my temper chastise; and the pen is my terror, the pencil my shame; and my talents I bury, and dead is my fame.
William Blake in DESPAIR

Art can never exist without Naked Beauty display'd.
William Blake in English Artist Quotes

He whose face gives no light, shall never become a star.
William Blake in English Artist Quotes

I have no name: I am but two days old. What shall I call thee? I happy am, Joy is my name. Sweet joy befall thee!
William Blake in English Artist Quotes

What is a wife and what is a harlot? What is a church and what is a theatre? are they two and not one? Can they exist separate? Are not religion and politics the same thing? Brotherhood is religion. O demonstrations of reason dividing families in cruelty
William Blake in English Artist Quotes

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

For everything that lives is holy, life delights in life.
William Blake in English Artist Quotes

Can I see another's woe, and not be in sorrow too? Can I see another's grief, and not seek for kind relief?
William Blake in English Artist Quotes

The hours of folly are measured by the clock; but of wisdom, no clock can measure.
William Blake in English Artist Quotes

I was angry with my friend: I told my wrath, my wrath did end. I was angry with my foe: I told it not, my wrath did grow.
William Blake in English Artist Quotes

Think in the morning. Act in the noon. Eat in the evening. Sleep in the night.
William Blake in English Artist Quotes

He who would do good to another must do it in Minute Particulars: general Good is the plea of the scoundrel, hypocrite, and flatterer, for Art and Science cannot exist but in minutely organized Particulars.
William Blake in English Artist Quotes

The glory of Christianity is to conquer by forgiveness.
William Blake in English Artist Quotes

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.
William Blake in English Artist Quotes

Eternity is in love with the productions of time.
William Blake in English Artist Quotes

Every harlot was a virgin once.
William Blake in English Artist Quotes

To see the world in a grain of sand, and to see heaven in a wild flower, hold infinity in the palm of your hands, and eternity in an hour.
William Blake in English Artist Quotes

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 in English Artist Quotes

The road to excess leads to the palace of wisdom... for we never know what is enough until we know what is more than enough.
William Blake in English Artist Quotes

A truth that's told with bad intent beats all the lies you can invent.
William Blake in English Artist Quotes

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.
William Blake in English Artist Quotes

Excessive sorrow laughs. Excessive joy weeps.
William Blake in English Artist Quotes

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 in English Artist Quotes

The bird a nest, the spider a web, man friendship.
William Blake in English Artist Quotes

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