Quotes from William Blake


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No bird soars too high if he soars with his own wings.


The soul of sweet delight, can never be defiled.


That the Jews assumed a right exclusively to the benefits of God will be a lasting witness against them and the same will it be against Christians.


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


Love to faults is always blind, always is to joy inclined. Lawless, winged, and unconfined, and breaks all chains from every mind.


Art is the tree of life. Science is the tree of death.


What is grand is necessarily obscure to weak men. That which can be made explicit to the idiot is not worth my care.


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.


Travelers repose and dream among my leaves.


The weak in courage is strong in cunning.


Fun I love, but too much fun is of all things the most loathsome. Mirth is better than fun, and happiness is better than mirth.


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


Think in the morning. Act in the noon. Eat in the evening. Sleep in the night.


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.


Great things are done when men and mountains meet.


When the green woods laugh with the voice of joy, And the dimpling stream runs laughing by; When the air does laugh with our merry wit, And the green hill laughs with the noise of it.


It is not because angels are holier than men or devils that makes them angels, but because they do not expect holiness from one another, but from God only.


To see a world in a grain of sand and heaven in a wild flower Hold infinity in the palms of your hand and eternity in an hour.


Excessive sorrow laughs. Excessive joy weeps.


The tree which moves some to tears of joy is in the eyes of others only a green thing that stands in the way. Some see nature all ridicule and deformity... and some scarce see nature at all. But to the eyes of the man of imagination, nature is imagination itself.