Quotes by William Blake
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Imagination is the real and eternal world of which this vegetable universe is but a faint shadow.

The thankful receiver bears a plentiful harvest.

That the Jews assumed a right exclusively to the benefits of God will be a lasting witness against them and the same will it be against Christians.

Where mercy, love, and pity dwell, there God is dwelling too.

When the green woods laugh with the voice of joy, And the dimpling stream runs laughing by; When the air does laugh with our merry wit, And the green hill laughs with the noise of it.

Active Evil is better than Passive Good.

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.

To generalize is to be an idiot.

If the Sun and Moon should ever doubt, they'd immediately go out.

Want of money and the distress of a thief can never be alleged as the cause of his thieving, for many honest people endure greater hardships with fortitude. We must therefore seek the cause elsewhere than in want of money, for that is the miser's passion, not the thief s.

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.

The man who never in his mind and thoughts travel'd to heaven is no artist.

The glory of Christianity is to conquer by forgiveness.

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

Lives in eternity's sun rise.

Do what you will, this world's a fiction and is made up of contradiction.

If a thing loves, it is infinite.

He who desires, but acts not, breeds pestilence.

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.

Every harlot was a virgin once.

Both read the Bible day and night, but thou read black where I read white.

The road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom.

He who binds to himself a joy Does the winged life destroy; But he who kisses the joy as it flies Lives in eternity's sun rise.

What is now proved was once only imagined.

The bird a nest, the spider a web, man friendship.

Opposition is true friendship.

It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend.

No bird soars too high if he soars with his own wings.

The tree which moves some to tears of joy is in the eyes of others only a green thing that stands in the way. Some see nature all ridicule and deformity... and some scarce see nature at all. But to the eyes of the man of imagination, nature is imagination itself.

I am in you and you in me, mutual in divine love.