Top 400 William Blake Quotes (2026 Update)
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101. “The Woman that does not love your Frowns Will never embrace your smiles.”

— William Blake

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

— William Blake

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

— William Blake

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

— 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. “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

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

— William Blake

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

— William Blake

109. “The cut worm forgives the plow.”

— William Blake

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

— William Blake

111. “Imitation is criticism.”

— William Blake

112. “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

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

— William Blake

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

— William Blake

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

— William Blake

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

— William Blake

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

— William Blake

118. “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

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

— William Blake

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

— William Blake

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

— William Blake

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

— William Blake

123. “One thought fills immensity.”

— William Blake

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

— William Blake

125. “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

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

— William Blake

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

— William Blake

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

— William Blake

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

— William Blake

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

— William Blake

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

— William Blake

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

— William Blake

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

— William Blake

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

— William Blake

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

— William Blake

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

— William Blake

137. “Heaven is in a grain of sand.”

— William Blake

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

— William Blake

139. “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

140. “Enthusiastic Admiration is the first Principle of Knowledge and its last.”

— William Blake

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

— William Blake

142. “He who makes his law a curse, by his own law shall surely die.”

— William Blake

143. “Shame is pride’s cloak.”

— William Blake

144. “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

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

— William Blake

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146. “As a man is, so he sees. As the eye is formed, such are its powers.”

— William Blake

147. “O God, protect me from my friends, that they have not power over me. Thou hast giv’n me power to protect myself from thy bitterest enemies.”

— William Blake

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

— William Blake

149. “We are not meant to resolve all contradictions but to live with them and rise above them.”

— William Blake

150. “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