Top 400 William Blake Quotes (2025 Update)

1. “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

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2. “I must create a system or be enslaved by another mans; I will not reason and compare: my business is to create.”

— William Blake

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3. “If the doors of perception were cleansed everything would appear to man as it is, infinite.”

— William Blake

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4. “Think in the morning. Act in the noon. Eat in the evening. Sleep in the night.”

— William Blake

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5. “What is now proved was once only imagined.”

— William Blake

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6. “Hindsight is a wonderful thing but foresight is better, especially when it comes to saving life, or some pain!”

— William Blake

7. “Holy, holy, holy is the Lord God Almighty !”

— William Blake

8. “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

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9. “You never know what is enough unless you know what is more than enough.”

— William Blake

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10. “You become what you behold.”

— William Blake

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

— William Blake

12. “Some are born to sweet delight, Some are born to endless night.”

— William Blake

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13. “In the universe, there are things that are known, and things that are unknown, and in between, there are doors.”

— William Blake

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14. “The road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom.”

— William Blake

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

— William Blake

16. “Gratitude is heaven itself.”

— William Blake

17. “The world of imagination is the world of eternity. It is the divine bosom into which we shall all go after death of the vegetative body.”

— William Blake

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18. “This life’s dim windows of the soul Distorts the heavens from pole to pole And leads you to believe a lie When you see with, not through, the eye.”

— William Blake

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19. “In your own bosom you bear your heaven and earth, And all you behold, though it appears without, It is within, in your imagination, Of which this world of mortality is but a shadow.”

— William Blake

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20. “It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend.”

— William Blake

21. “The imagination is not a state: it is the human existence itself.”

— William Blake

22. “Execution is the chariot of genius.”

— William Blake

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23. “The busy bee has no time for sorrow.”

— William Blake

24. “The true method of knowledge is experiment.”

— William Blake

25. “Every Night and every Morn Some to Misery are born. Every Morn and every Night Some are born to Sweet Delight, Some are born to Endless Night.”

— William Blake

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26. “Tyger! Tyger! burning bright In the forests of the night, What immortal hand or eye Could frame thy fearful symmetry?”

— William Blake

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

— William Blake

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28. “Why stand we here trembling around, calling on God for help, and not ourselves, in whom God dwells?”

— William Blake

29. “And we are put on this earth a little space that we might learn to bear the beams of love.”

— William Blake

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

— William Blake

31. “Energy is eternal delight.”

— William Blake

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32. “Knowledge is Life with wings.”

— William Blake

33. “Each man must create his own system or else he is a slave to another mans.”

— William Blake

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

— William Blake

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

— William Blake

36. “Gratitude is heaven itself; there could be no heaven without gratitude.”

— William Blake

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

— William Blake

38. “A robin redbreast in a cage Puts all heaven in a rage.”

— William Blake

39. “One Power alone makes a Poet: Imagination. The Divine Vision.”

— William Blake

40. “A truth that’s told with bad intent beats all the lies you can invent.”

— William Blake

41. “As a man is, so he sees.”

— William Blake

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42. “The eye altering, alters all.”

— William Blake

43. “Pride is a personal commitment. It is an attitude which separates excellence from mediocrity.”

— William Blake

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

— William Blake

45. “Nature has no outline. Imagination has.”

— William Blake

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46. “How can a bird that is born for joy Sit in a cage and sing?”

— William Blake

47. “Enlightenment means taking full responsibility for your life.”

— William Blake

48. “He who kisses joy as it flies by will live in eternity’s sunrise.”

— William Blake

49. “I see through my eyes, not with them.”

— William Blake

50. “To generalize is to be an idiot.”

— William Blake