Top 400 William Blake Quotes (2026 Update)
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201. “To create a little flower is the labour of ages.”

— William Blake

202. “Does the Eagle know what is in the pit Or wilt thou go ask the Mole? Can Wisdom be put in a silver rod, Or Love in a golden bowl?”

— William Blake

203. “A good local pub has much in common with a church, except that a pub is warmer, and there’s more conversation.”

— William Blake

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

— William Blake

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205. “Prepare your hearts for Death’s cold hand! prepare Your souls for flight, your bodies for the earth; Prepare your arms for glorious victory; Prepare your eyes to meet a holy God! Prepare, prepare!”

— William Blake

206. “When thou seest an eagle, thou seest a portion of genius; lift up thy head!”

— William Blake

207. “Since all the riches of this world May be gifts from the Devil and earthly kings, I should suspect that I worshipp’d the Devil If I thank’d my God for worldly things.”

— William Blake

208. “There is a smile of love, And there is a smile of deceit, And there is a smile of smiles In which these two smiles meet.”

— William Blake

209. “The Old and New Testaments are the Great Code of Art.”

— William Blake

210. “Truth can never be told so as to be understood and not be believed.”

— William Blake

211. “I cannot consider death as any thing but a removing from one room to another.”

— William Blake

212. “He who would do good to another must do it in Minute Particulars: general Good is the plea of the scoundrel, hypocrite, and flatterer, for Art and Science cannot exist but in minutely organized Particulars.”

— William Blake

213. “O Earth, O Earth, return! Arise from out the dewy grass; Night is worn; And the morn Rises from the slumbrous mass.”

— William Blake

214. “Every wolf’s and lion’s howl Raises from Hell a human soul.”

— William Blake

215. “The vision of Christ that thou dost see is my vision’s greatest enemy. Both read the Bible day and night, but thou read’st black where I read white. His seventy disciples sent against religion and government .”

— William Blake

216. “He who doubts from what he sees Will ne’er believe, do what you please.”

— William Blake

217. “I was in a Printing-house in Hell, and saw the method in which knowledge is transmitted from generation to generation.”

— William Blake

218. “The grave is Heaven’s golden gate, And rich and poor around it wait; O Shepherdess of England’s fold, Behold this gate of pearl and gold!”

— William Blake

219. “The soul of sweet delight, can never be defiled.”

— William Blake

220. “Mutual forgiveness of each vice. Such are the Gates of Paradise.”

— William Blake

221. “Without minute neatness of execution, the sublime cannot exist! Grandeur of ideas is founded on precision of ideas.”

— William Blake

222. “Where there is money there is no art.”

— William Blake

223. “Tools were made and born were hands, Every farmer understands.”

— William Blake

224. “And I watered it in fears, Night and morning with my tears; And I sunned it with smiles, And with soft deceitful wiles.”

— William Blake

225. “Everything that lives, lives not alone, nor for itself.”

— William Blake

226. “Time is the mercy of Eternity; without Time’s swiftness Which is the swiftest of all things, all were eternal torment.”

— William Blake

227. “Does a firm persuasion that a thing is so, make it so?”

— William Blake

228. “And I made a rural pen, And I stained the water clear, And I wrote my happy songs Every Child may joy to hear.”

— William Blake

229. “For I dance And drink and sing, Till some blind hand Shall brush my wing. If thought is life And strength and breath And the want Of thought is death Then am I A happy fly If I live Or if I die.”

— William Blake

230. “He who shall hurt the little wren Shall never be beloved by men.”

— William Blake

231. “Joys impregnate. Sorrows bring forth.”

— William Blake

232. “Error is created; truth is eternal.”

— William Blake

233. “Every thing possible to be believ’d is an image of truth.”

— William Blake

234. “England! awake! awake! awake! Jerusalem thy sister calls! Why wilt thou sleep the sleep of death And close her from thy ancient walls?”

— William Blake

235. “O Winter! bar thine adamantine doors: The north is thine; there hast thou build thy dark, Deep-founded habitation. Shake not thy roofs, Nor bend thy pillars with thine iron car.”

— William Blake

236. “Where any view of money exists, art cannot be carried on.”

— William Blake

237. “Father, O father! what do we here In this land of unbelief and fear?”

— William Blake

238. “Great things are done when men and mountains meet; this is not done by jostling in the street.”

— William Blake

239. “Little Lamb, who made thee? Dost thou know who made thee?”

— William Blake

240. “Every man who is not an artist is a traitor to his own nature.”

— William Blake

241. “And is he honest who resists his genius or conscience only for the sake of present ease or gratification.”

— William Blake

242. “There is a place where Contrarieties are equally True...”

— William Blake

243. “He who loves his enemies betrays his friends; this surely is not what Jesus meant.”

— William Blake

244. “Nothing can be more contemptible than to suppose Public Records to be true.”

— William Blake

245. “My work is visionary or imaginative. That which can be made explicit to the idiot is not worth my care...”

— William Blake

246. “Vision is the end of religion.”

— William Blake

247. “What has reasoning to do with painting?”

— William Blake

248. “To the eyes of a miser a guinea is more beautiful than the sun.”

— William Blake

249. “None but blockheads copy each other.”

— William Blake

250. “He who sees the Infinite in all things sees God. He who sees the Ratio only sees himself only. Therefore God becomes as we are, that we may be as he is.”

— William Blake