William Blake quotes

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

— 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

“When a sinister person means to be your enemy, they always start by trying to become your friend.”

— William Blake

“The fool who persists in his folly will become wise.”

— William Blake

“Better murder an infant in its cradle than nurse an unacted desire.”

— William Blake

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

— William Blake

“In seed time learn, in harvest teach, in winter enjoy.”

— William Blake

“Active Evil is better than Passive Good.”

— William Blake

“Excessive sorrow laughs. Excessive joy weeps.”

— William Blake

“Art can never exist without naked beauty displayed.”

— William Blake

“If a thing loves, it is infinite.”

— 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

“Eternity is in love with the productions of time.”

— William Blake

“Art is the tree of life. Science is the tree of death.”

— William Blake

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

— 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

“The man who never alters his opinions is like standing water, and breeds reptiles of the mind.”

— 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

“Opposition is true friendship.”

— William Blake

“Exuberance is beauty.”

— William Blake

“He whose face gives no light, shall never become a star.”

— William Blake

“The difference between a bad artist and a good one is: the bad artist seems to copy a great deal; the good one really does.”

— William Blake

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

— William Blake

“Great things are done when men and mountains meet.”

— William Blake

“The true method of knowledge is experiment.”

— 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

“The tigers of wrath are wiser than the horses of instruction.”

— 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

“The weak in courage is strong in cunning.”

— William Blake

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

— William Blake