William Blake

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

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

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 and pride!
William Blake

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

As a man is, so he sees. As the eye is formed, such are its powers.
William Blake

To generalize is to be an idiot.
William Blake

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

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

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

Energy is an eternal delight, and he who desires, but acts not, breeds pestilence.
William Blake

The true method of knowledge is experiment.
William Blake

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

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.
William Blake

A fool sees not the same tree that a wise man sees.
William Blake

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.
William Blake

Prisons are built with stones of Law. Brothels with the bricks of religion.
William Blake

You never know what is enough unless you know what is more than enough.
William Blake

Great things are done when men and mountains meet.
William Blake

He who desires, but acts not, breeds pestilence.
William Blake

If the doors of perception were cleansed everything would appear to man as it is, infinite.
William Blake

Prudence is a rich, ugly, old maid courted by incapacity.
William Blake

Lives in eternity’s sun rise.
William Blake

Better murder an infant in its cradle than nurse an unacted desire.
William Blake

Christ’s crucifix shall be made an excuse for executing criminals.
William Blake

The weak in courage is strong in cunning.
William Blake

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.
William Blake

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

Man has no Body distinct from his Soul; for that called Body is a portion of Soul discerned by the five Senses, the chief inlets of Soul in this age.
William Blake

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

One thought fills immensity.
William Blake

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

Opposition is true friendship.
William Blake

Poetry fettered, fetters the human race. Nations are destroyed or flourish in proportion as their poetry, painting, and music are destroyed or flourish.
William Blake

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.
William Blake

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

You cannot have Liberty in this world without what you call Moral Virtue, and you cannot have Moral Virtue without the slavery of that half of the human race who hate what you call Moral Virtue.
William Blake

Those who restrain their desires, do so because theirs is weak enough to be restrained.
William Blake

Art is the tree of life. Science is the tree of death.
William Blake

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