Top 400 William Blake Quotes (2025 Update)
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51. “Love is weak when there is more doubt than there is trust, but love is most strong when you learn to trust even with all the doubts. If a thing loves, it is infinite.”

— William Blake

52. “Do what you will, this world’s a fiction and is made up of contradiction.”

— William Blake

53. “Without Unceasing Practice nothing can be done. Practice is Art. If you leave off you are lost.”

— William Blake

54. “Celebrate your existence!”

— William Blake

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

— William Blake

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

— William Blake

57. “Work up imagination to the state of vision.”

— William Blake

58. “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

59. “Joy and woe are woven fine, A clothing for the soul divine. Under every grief and pine Runs a joy with silken twine.”

— William Blake

60. “The eagle never lost so much time as when he submitted to learn of the crow.”

— William Blake

61. “A fool sees not the same tree that a wise man sees.”

— William Blake

62. “God is the poetic genius in each of us.”

— William Blake

63. “We are led to believe a lie When we see not through the eye.”

— William Blake

64. “Improvement makes strait roads, but the crooked roads without Improvement, are roads of Genius.”

— William Blake

65. “I was angry with my friend: I told my wrath, my wrath did end. I was angry with my foe: I told it not, my wrath did grow.”

— William Blake

66. “The naked women’s body is a portion of eternity too great for the eye of man.”

— William Blake

67. “I have conversed with the spiritual Sun. I saw him on Primrose Hill.”

— William Blake

68. “Man was made for joy and woe Then when this we rightly know Through the world we safely go. Joy and woe are woven fine A clothing for the soul to bind.”

— William Blake

69. “Where others see but the dawn coming over the hill, I see the soul of God shouting for joy.”

— William Blake

70. “What seems to be, is, to those to whom it seems to be, and is productive of the most dreadful consequences to those to whom it seems to be, even of torments, despair, eternal death.”

— William Blake

71. “Innocence dwells with Wisdom, but never with ignorance...”

— William Blake

72. “Bring me my bow of burning gold: Bring me my arrows of desire: Bring me my spear: O clouds, unfold! Bring me my chariot of fire.”

— William Blake

73. “The nakedness of woman is the work of God.”

— William Blake

74. “I myself do nothing. The Holy Spirit accomplishes all through me.”

— William Blake

75. “The roaring of lions, the howling of wolves, the raging of the stormy sea, and the destructive sword, are portions of eternity, too great for the eye of man.”

— William Blake

76. “The thankful receiver bears a plentiful harvest.”

— William Blake

77. “Art can never exist without naked beauty displayed.”

— William Blake

78. “When I tell the truth, it is not for the sake of convincing those who do not know it, but for the sake of defending those that do.”

— William Blake

79. “For the Eye altering alters all; The Senses roll themselves in fear And the flat Earth becomes a Ball.”

— William Blake

80. “To the eyes of the man of imagination, nature is imagination itself.”

— William Blake

81. “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

82. “They who forgive most shall be most forgiven.”

— William Blake

83. “The fox provides for himself, but God provides for the lion.”

— William Blake

84. “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

85. “Excessive sorrow laughs. Excessive joy weeps.”

— William Blake

86. “For Mercy has a human heart Pity, a human face: And Love, the human form divine, And Peace, the human dress.”

— William Blake

87. “Mans desires are limited by his perceptions; none can desire what he has not perceived.”

— William Blake

88. “He who has few things to desire cannot have many to fear.”

— William Blake

89. “To generalize is to be an idiot. To particularize is the alone distinction of merit. General knowledge are those knowledge that idiots possess.”

— William Blake

90. “If the Sun and Moon should ever doubt, they’d immediately go out.”

— William Blake

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

— William Blake

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

— William Blake

93. “God only acts and is, in existing beings or men.”

— William Blake

94. “Without contraries is no progression. Attraction and repulsion, reason and energy, love and hate, are necessary to human existence.”

— William Blake

95. “Expect poison from the standing water.”

— William Blake

96. “The cut worm forgives the plow.”

— William Blake

97. “Opposition is true friendship.”

— William Blake

98. “If a thing loves, it is infinite.”

— William Blake

99. “Time is the Mercy of Eternity.”

— William Blake

100. “The Woman that does not love your Frowns Will never embrace your smiles.”

— William Blake