Top 400 William Blake Quotes (2024 Update)
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201. “The soul of sweet delight, can never be defiled.”

— William Blake

202. “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

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

— William Blake

204. “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

205. “When the sun rises, do you not see a round disc of fire somewhat like a guinea? O no, no, I see an innumerable company of the heavenly host crying Holy, Holy, Holy is the Lord God Almighty.”

— William Blake

206. “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

207. “Active Evil is better than Passive Good.”

— William Blake

208. “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

209. “Can I see another’s woe, and not be in sorrow too? Can I see another’s grief, and not seek for kind relief?”

— William Blake

210. “Joys impregnate. Sorrows bring forth.”

— William Blake

211. “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

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

— William Blake

213. “The cistern contains: The fountain overflows.”

— William Blake

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

— William Blake

215. “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

216. “If you cannot imagine with the mind’s eye much more than you can see with the mortal eye, you have a very poor imagination indeed.”

— William Blake

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

— William Blake

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

— William Blake

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

— William Blake

220. “The tree which moves some to tears of joy is in the eyes of others only a green thing that stands in the way.”

— William Blake

221. “He who sees the Infinite in all things sees God.”

— William Blake

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

— William Blake

223. “Life delights in life.”

— William Blake

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

— William Blake

225. “Vision is the end of religion.”

— William Blake

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

— William Blake

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

— William Blake

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

— William Blake

229. “General knowledges are those knowledges that idiots possess.”

— William Blake

230. “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

231. “If you would help another man, you must do so in minute particulars.”

— William Blake

232. “The Vision of Christ that thou dost see, Is my vision’s greatest enemy. Thine is the Friend of all Mankind, Mine speaks in Parables to the blind. Thine loves the same world that mine hates, Thy heaven-doors are my hell gates.”

— William Blake

233. “The crow wished everything was black, the Owl, that everything was white.”

— William Blake

234. “The Errors of a Wise Man make your Rule Rather than the Perfections of a Fool.”

— William Blake

235. “To create a little flower is the labour of ages.”

— William Blake

236. “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

237. “If you trap the moment before it’s ripe, The tears of repentence you’ll certainly wipe; But if once you let the ripe moment go You can never wipe off the tears of woe.”

— William Blake

238. “He who pretends to be either painter or engraver without being a master of drawing is an imposter.”

— William Blake

239. “The best wine is the oldest, the best water the newest.”

— William Blake

240. “The child’s toys and the old man’s reasons are the fruits of two seasons.”

— William Blake

241. “I have mental joys and mental health, Mental friends and mental wealth, I’ve a wife that I love and that loves me; I’ve all but riches bodily.”

— William Blake

242. “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

243. “As the air to a bird or the sea to a fish, so is contempt to the contemptible.”

— William Blake

244. “Since the French Revolution Englishmen are all intermeasurable one by another, certainly a happy state of agreement to which I forone do not agree.”

— William Blake

245. “Sooner strangle an infant in its cradle than nurse unacted desires.”

— William Blake

246. “Abstinence sows sand all over The ruddy limbs and flaming hair, But desire gratified Plants fruits of life and beauty there.”

— William Blake

247. “Mysteries are not to be solved. They eye goes blind when it only wants to see why.”

— William Blake

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

— William Blake

249. “It is an easy thing to talk of patience to the afflicted.”

— William Blake

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

— William Blake