William Blake quotes

“For everything that lives is holy, life delights in life.”

— William Blake

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

— William Blake

“To the eyes of a miser a guinea is more beautiful than the sun, and a bag worn with the use of money has more beautiful proportions than a vine filled with grapes.”

— William Blake

“Every harlot was a virgin once.”

— William Blake

“One thought fills immensity.”

— William Blake

“Christ's crucifix shall be made an excuse for executing criminals.”

— William Blake

“He who desires, but acts not, breeds pestilence.”

— William Blake

“If the fool would persist in his folly he would become wise.”

— 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

“Lives in eternity's sun rise.”

— William Blake

“Prisons are built with stones of Law. Brothels with the bricks of religion.”

— William Blake

“Prudence is a rich, ugly, old maid courted by incapacity.”

— William Blake

“The eye altering, alters all.”

— William Blake

“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

“The hours of folly are measured by the clock; but of wisdom, no clock can measure.”

— William Blake

“The soul of sweet delight, can never be defiled.”

— William Blake

“Travelers repose and dream among my leaves.”

— William Blake

“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

“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

“It is not because angels are holier than men or devils that makes them angels, but because they do not expect holiness from one another, but from God only.”

— William Blake