Top 400 William Blake Quotes (2025 Update)
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101. “The hand of Vengeance found the Bed To which the Purple Tyrant fled The iron hand crush’d the tyrant’s head And became Tyrant in his stead.”

— William Blake

102. “The ruins of time build mansions in eternity.”

— William Blake

103. “When thought is closed in caves, then love shall show its root in deepest hell.”

— William Blake

104. “To some people a tree is something so incredibly beautiful that it brings tears to the eyes. To others it is just a green thing that stands in the way.”

— William Blake

105. “In every cry of every man, In every infant’s cry of fear, In every voice, in every ban, The mind-forg’d manacles I hear.”

— William Blake

106. “Exuberance is beauty.”

— William Blake

107. “The eye sees more than the heart knows.”

— William Blake

108. “I will not cease from mental fight Nor shall my sword sleep in my hand.”

— William Blake

109. “The bird a nest, the spider a web, man friendship.”

— William Blake

110. “Without contraries there is no progression.”

— William Blake

111. “One thought fills immensity.”

— William Blake

112. “Imitation is criticism.”

— William Blake

113. “Drive your cart and plow over the bones of the dead.”

— William Blake

114. “How can the bird that is born for joy Sit in a cage and sing? How can a child, when fears annoy, But droop his tender wing, And forget his youthful spring?”

— William Blake

115. “Hold infinity in the palm of your hand.”

— William Blake

116. “For all eternity, I forgive you and you forgive me.”

— William Blake

117. “Children of the future age Reading this indignant page Know that in a former time Love, sweet love, was thought a crime.”

— William Blake

118. “Everything is beautiful in its own way. Exuberance is beauty.”

— William Blake

119. “He who will not bend to Love must be subdu’d by Fear.”

— William Blake

120. “God appears, and God is Light, to those poor souls who dwell in Night; but does a Human Form display to those who dwell in realms of Day.”

— William Blake

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

— William Blake

122. “Mere enthusiasm is the all in all.”

— William Blake

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

— William Blake

124. “I cry, Love! Love! Love! happy happy Love! free as the mountain wind!”

— William Blake

125. “First thought is best in Art, second in other matters.”

— William Blake

126. “I give you the end of a golden string, Only wind it into a ball, It will lead you in at Heaven’s gate Built in Jerusalem’s wall.”

— William Blake

127. “I live by Miracle.”

— William Blake

128. “A dog starved at his master’s gate Predicts the ruin of the state.”

— William Blake

129. “You throw the sand against the wind and the wind blows it back again.”

— William Blake

130. “The fox condemns the trap, not himself.”

— William Blake

131. “Always be ready to speak your mind, and a base man will avoid you.”

— William Blake

132. “Wisdom is sold in a desolate marketplace where none can come to buy.”

— William Blake

133. “If you have form’d a circle to go into, Go into it yourself, and see how you would do. They said this mystery never shall cease: The priest promotes war, and the soldier peace.”

— William Blake

134. “The Goddess Fortune is the devil’s servant, ready to kiss any one’s ass.”

— William Blake

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

— William Blake

136. “The weak in courage is strong in cunning.”

— William Blake

137. “There is a Moment in each Day that Satan cannot find.”

— William Blake

138. “Such, such were the joys When we all, girls and boys, In our youth time were seen On the Echoing Green.”

— William Blake

139. “When the stars threw down their spears, and watered heaven with their tears, did he smile his work to see? Did he who made the Lamb make thee?”

— William Blake

140. “Nothing is real beyond imaginative patterns men make of reality.”

— William Blake

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

— William Blake

142. “The human mind cannot go beyond the gift of God, the Holy Ghost. To suppose that art can go beyond the finest specimens of art that are now in the world is not knowing what art is; it is being blind to the gifts of the spirit.”

— William Blake

143. “Each man is haunted until his humanity awakens.”

— William Blake

144. “And did those feet in ancient time Walk upon England’s mountains green? And was the holy Lamb of God On England’s pleasant pastures seen?”

— William Blake

145. “Heaven is in a grain of sand.”

— William Blake

146. “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

147. “You’ve always had the power right there in your shoes, you just had to learn it for yourself.”

— William Blake

148. “If Christianity was morality, Socrates would be the Saviour.”

— William Blake

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

— William Blake

150. “The pride of the peacock is the glory of God. The lust of the goat is the bounty of God. The wrath of the lion is the wisdom of God. The nakedness of woman is the work of God.”

— William Blake