William Blake Quotes

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

Men, Care, Made

Great things are done when men and mountains meet.
William Blake

Great, Men, Done

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

Good, Great, Bad

Opposition is true friendship.
William Blake

Friendship, True, Opposition

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.
William Blake

God, Same, Against

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

Enough, Weak, Desires

The tigers of wrath are wiser than the horses of instruction.
William Blake

Wiser, Horses, Wrath

The weak in courage is strong in cunning.
William Blake

Courage, Strong, Weak

Energy is an eternal delight, and he who desires, but acts not, breeds pestilence.
William Blake

Energy, Eternal, Desires

For everything that lives is holy, life delights in life.
William Blake

Life, Everything, Lives

Want of money and the distress of a thief can never be alleged as the cause of his thieving, for many honest people endure greater hardships with fortitude. We must therefore seek the cause elsewhere than in want of money, for that is the miser's passion, not the thief s.
William Blake

Money, Passion, Honest

Where mercy, love, and pity dwell, there God is dwelling too.
William Blake

Love, God, Mercy

To the eyes of a miser a guinea is more beautiful than the sun, and a bag worn with the use of money has more beautiful proportions than a vine filled with grapes.
William Blake

Money, Beautiful, Eyes

Every harlot was a virgin once.
William Blake

One thought fills immensity.
William Blake

Thought, Fills, Immensity

Christ's crucifix shall be made an excuse for executing criminals.
William Blake

Made, Christ, Shall

He who desires, but acts not, breeds pestilence.
William Blake

Desires, Acts, Breeds

If the fool would persist in his folly he would become wise.
William Blake

Wise, Fool, Become

Lives in eternity's sun rise.
William Blake

Sun, Lives, Rise

Man has no Body distinct from his Soul; for that called Body is a portion of Soul discerned by the five Senses, the chief inlets of Soul in this age.
William Blake

Age, Soul, Body

Prisons are built with stones of Law. Brothels with the bricks of religion.
William Blake

Religion, Law, Stones

Prudence is a rich, ugly, old maid courted by incapacity.
William Blake

Rich, Old, Ugly

The eye altering, alters all.
William Blake

Eye, Altering, Alters

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

Art, Science, Foundation

The hours of folly are measured by the clock; but of wisdom, no clock can measure.
William Blake

Wisdom, Hours, Measure

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Biography

Nationality: English

Type: Poet

Born: November 28, 1757

Died: August 12, 1827

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