William Blake Quotes

English - Poet November 28, 1757 - August 12, 1827

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Think in the morning. Act in the noon. Eat in the evening. Sleep in the night. - William Blake

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

Morning, Night, Sleep, Think, Evening

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

Flower, Gardening, World, Sand, Heaven

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.

Nature, Eyes, Man, Tree, Imagination

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

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

Motivational, Bird, Wings, High, Own, He

Art is the tree of life. Science is the tree of death. - William Blake

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

Life, Science, Death, Art, Tree

Art can never exist without naked beauty displayed. - William Blake

Art can never exist without naked beauty displayed.

Beauty, Art, Naked, Never, Without

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.

Green, Laugh, Hill, Joy, Voice, Woods

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

He who desires, but acts not, breeds pestilence.

Who, He, Desires, Breeds, Acts

The bird a nest, the spider a web, man friendship. - William Blake

The bird a nest, the spider a web, man friendship.

Friendship, Man, Bird, Spider, Nest, Web

I am in you and you in me, mutual in divine love. - William Blake

I am in you and you in me, mutual in divine love.

Love, Romantic, I Am, Me, You, Divine

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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.

Love, Hell, Care, Heaven, Despair, Ease

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

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

Man, Wise, Tree, Fool, Wise Man, Same

You never know what is enough unless you know what is more than enough. - William Blake

You never know what is enough unless you know what is more than enough.

You, Know, Enough, Never, More, Than

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

Great things are done when men and mountains meet.

Great, Men, Mountains, Meet, Done

The weak in courage is strong in cunning. - William Blake

The weak in courage is strong in cunning.

Courage, Strong, Weak, Cunning

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

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

Love, God, Mercy, Dwell, Pity, Where

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.

Truth, Know, Tell, Who, Defending, Those

He who binds to himself a joy Does the winged life destroy; But he who kisses the joy as it flies Lives in eternity's sun rise.

Life, Sun, Joy, Rise, Kisses, Eternity

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

Love, Hate, Energy, Human, Love And Hate

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

Shadow, Imagination, World, Universe

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.

God, Men, Only, Angels, Devils, Expect

I was angry with my friend: I told my wrath, my wrath did end. I was angry with my foe: I told it not, my wrath did grow.

Friend, Angry, End, Grow, My Friend, Did

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

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

Wise, Fool, Become, He, Folly, His

Lives in eternity's sun rise.

Sun, Rise, Eternity, Lives, Sun Rise

You cannot have Liberty in this world without what you call Moral Virtue, and you cannot have Moral Virtue without the slavery of that half of the human race who hate what you call Moral Virtue.

Hate, You, World, Slavery, Moral, Race

The road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom. - William Blake

The road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom.

Wisdom, Road, Palace, Excess, Leads

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