Famous William Blake Quotes



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

William Blake

Thy friendship oft has made my heart to ache do be my enemy--for friendship's sake.

William Blake

One thought fills immensity.

William Blake

In seed time learn, in harvest teach, in winter enjoy.

William Blake

The eye altering, alters all.

William Blake

The fool who persists in his folly will become wise.

William Blake

The foundation of empire is art and science. Remove them or degrade them, and the empire is no more. Empire follows art and not vice versa as Englishmen suppose.

William Blake

If the Sun and Moon should ever doubt, they’d immediately go out.

William Blake

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.

William Blake

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.

William Blake

If a thing loves, it is infinite.

William Blake

Energy is eternal delight.

William Blake

I myself do nothing. The Holy Spirit accomplishes all through me.

William Blake

Art can never exist without naked beauty displayed.

William Blake

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.

William Blake

Eternity is in love with the productions of time.

William Blake

I must create a system or be enslaved by another mans; I will not reason and compare: my business is to create.

William Blake

Innocence dwells with Wisdom, but never with Ignorance.

William Blake

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

William Blake

The road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom.

William Blake

Improvement makes strait roads, but the crooked roads without Improvement, are roads of Genius.

William Blake

Opposition is true friendship.

William Blake

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.

William Blake

Thou art a Man, God is no more. Thy own humanity learn to adore.

William Blake

The difference between a bad artist and a good one is: the bad artist seems to copy a great deal; the good one really does.

William Blake

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

William Blake

Great things are done when men and mountains meet.

William Blake

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