109 William Blake Quotes to Awaken the Visionary in You

1. “Listen to the fool’s reproach! It is a kingly title!” – William Blake

2. “General knowledges are those knowledges that idiots possess.” – William Blake

3. “The true method of knowledge is experiment.” – William Blake

4. “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

5. “I see through my eyes, not with them.” – William Blake

6. “You become what you behold.” – William Blake

7. “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.” – William Blake

8. “Why stand we here trembling around, calling on God for help, and not ourselves, in whom God dwells?” – William Blake

9. “Truth can never be told so as to be understood and not be believed.” – William Blake

10. “There is no mistake so great as the mistake of not going on.” – William Blake

11. “Improvement makes straight roads, but the crooked roads without improvement are roads of genius.” – William Blake

12. “The Woman that does not love your Frowns Will never embrace your smiles.” – William Blake

13. “The thankful receiver bears a plentiful harvest.” – William Blake

14. “To be an Error and to be Cast out is a part of God’s Design.” – William Blake

15. “Shame is pride’s cloak.” – William Blake

16. “Opposition is true Friendship.” – William Blake

17. “To some people a tree is something so incredibly beautiful that it brings tears to the eyes. To others it is just a green thing that stands in the way.” – William Blake

18. “Knowledge is Life with wings.” – William Blake

19. “Without contraries there is no progression.” – William Blake

20. “The most sublime act is to set another before you.” – William Blake

21. “Energy is the only life, and is from the body; and reason is the bound or outward circumference of energy. Energy is eternal delight.” – William Blake

22. “The fox condemns the trap, not himself.” – William Blake

23. “Gratitude is heaven itself.” – William Blake

24. “Innocence dwells with Wisdom, but never with ignorance…” – William Blake

25. “Christianity is art and not money. Money is its curse.” – William Blake

26. “We are here to learn to endure the beams of love” – William Blake

27. “The human mind cannot go beyond the gift of God, the Holy Ghost. To suppose that art can go beyond the finest specimens of art that are now in the world is not knowing what art is; it is being blind to the gifts of the spirit.” – William Blake

28. “Then cherish pity, lest you drive an angel from your door.” – William Blake

29. “The eagle never lost so much time as when he submitted to learn of the crow” – William Blake

30. “A robin redbreast in a cage Puts all heaven in a rage.” – William Blake

31. “He who would do good to another must do it in Minute Particulars: general Good is the plea of the scoundrel, hypocrite, and flatterer, for Art and Science cannot exist but in minutely organized Particulars.” – William Blake

32. “A dog starved at his master’s gate Predicts the ruin of the state.” – William Blake

33. “I must create a system or be enslaved by another mans; I will not reason and compare: my business is to create.” – William Blake

34. “The bird a nest, the spider a web, man friendship.” – William Blake

35. “I will not cease from mental fight Nor shall my sword sleep in my hand.” – William Blake

36. “What is now proved was once only imagined.” – William Blake

37. “They who forgive most shall be most forgiven.” – William Blake

38. “He who desires, but acts not, breeds pestilence.” – William Blake

39. “The busy bee has no time for sorrow.” – William Blake

40. “Some are born to sweet delight, Some are born to endless night.” – William Blake

41. “Every object that is loved forms the center of a paradise.” – William Blake

42. “Enlightenment means taking full responsibility for your life.” – William Blake

43. “Always be ready to speak your mind, and a base man will avoid you.” – William Blake

44. “I cry, Love! Love! Love! happy happy Love! free as the mountain wind!” – William Blake

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

46. “One Power alone makes a Poet: Imagination. The Divine Vision.” – William Blake

47. “Love is weak when there is more doubt than there is trust, but love is most strong when you learn to trust even with all the doubts. If a thing loves, it is infinite.” – William Blake

48. “He who wants, but doesn’t act, is a pest.” – William Blake

49. “There is a Moment in each Day that Satan cannot find.” – William Blake

50. “Better to shun the bait than struggle in the snare.” – William Blake

51. “Wisdom is sold in a desolate marketplace where none can come to buy.” – William Blake

52. “Great things are done when men and mountains meet.” – William Blake

53. “He whose face gives no light, shall never become a star.” – William Blake

54. “The weak in courage is strong in cunning.” – William Blake

55. “We are not meant to resolve all contradictions but to live with them and rise above them.” – William Blake

56. “He who makes his law a curse, by his own law shall surely die.” – William Blake

57. “Each man is haunted until his humanity awakens.” – William Blake

58. “All the destruction in Christian Europe has arisen from deism, which is natural religion.” – William Blake

59. “Pay attention to minute particulars. Take care of the little ones. Generalization and abstraction are the plea of the hypocrite, scoundrel, and knave.” – William Blake

60. “Imitation is criticism.” – William Blake

61. “I am under the direction of messengers from Heaven daily and nightly.” – William Blake

62. “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

63. “You never know what is enough unless you know what is more than enough.” – William Blake

64. “Every Night and every Morn Some to Misery are born. Every Morn and every Night Some are born to Sweet Delight, Some are born to Endless Night.” – William Blake

65. “I am in you and you in me, mutual in divine love.” – William Blake

66. “Nothing is real beyond imaginative patterns men make of reality.” – William Blake

67. “We are led to believe a lie When we see not through the eye.” – William Blake

68. “Make your own rules or be a slave to another man’s.” – William Blake

69. “Energy is eternal delight.” – William Blake

70. “Active evil is better than passive good” – William Blake

71. “He who kisses joy as it flies by will live in eternity’s sunrise.” – William Blake

72. “Everything is beautiful in its own way. Exuberance is beauty.” – William Blake

73. “Excessive sorrow laughs. Excessive joy weeps.” – William Blake

74. “A good local pub has much in common with a church, except that a pub is warmer, and there’s more conversation.” – William Blake

75. “Such, such were the joys When we all, girls and boys, In our youth time were seen On the Echoing Green.” – William Blake

76. “The fool who persists in his folly will become wise.” – William Blake

77. “A fool sees not the same tree that a wise man sees.” – William Blake

78. “The moon, like a flower in heaven’s high bower, with silent delight sits and smiles on the night.” – William Blake

79. “Think in the morning. Act in the noon.” – William Blake

80. “The vision of Christ that thou dost see Is my vision’s greatest enemy.” – William Blake

81. “He who has few things to desire cannot have many to fear.” – William Blake

82. “Expect poison from the standing water.” – William Blake

83. “The eye sees more than the heart knows.” – William Blake

84. “If the doors of perception were cleansed, everything would appear to man as it is – infinite.” – William Blake

85. “Time is the Mercy of Eternity.” – William Blake

86. “It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend.” – William Blake

87. “Where mercy, love, and pity dwell, there God is dwelling too.” – William Blake

88. “Nature has no outline. Imagination has.” – William Blake

89. “Celebrate your existence!” – William Blake

90. “If a thing loves, it is infinite.” – William Blake

91. “Everything that lives, lives not alone, nor for itself.” – William Blake

92. “He who has suffered you to impose on him knows you.” – William Blake

93. “If you have formed a circle to go into,Go into it yourself and see how you would do.” – William Blake

94. “Mere enthusiasm is the all in all.” – William Blake

95. “No bird soars too high if he soars with his own wings.” – William Blake

96. “Each man must create his own system, or else he is a slave to another man’s.” – William Blake

97. “Do what you will this life’s a fiction, And is made up of contradiction.” – William Blake

98. “Eternity is in love with the productions of time.” – William Blake

99. “He who does not imagine in stronger and better lineaments, and in stronger and better light than his perishing and mortal eye can see, does not imagine at all.” – William Blake

100. “You’ve always had the power right there in your shoes, you just had to learn it for yourself.” – William Blake

101. “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

102. “Never seek to tell thy love; Love that never told can be. For the gentle wind does move silently.. invisibly.” – William Blake

103. “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.” – William Blake

104. “Art is the tree of life. Science is the tree of death.” – William Blake

105. “When thought is closed in caves, then love shall show its root in deepest hell.” – William Blake

106. “Man has closed himself up, till he sees all things thro’ narrow chinks of his cavern.” – William Blake

107. “Drive your cart and plow over the bones of the dead.” – William Blake

108. “The imagination is not a state: it is the human existence itself.” – William Blake

109. “The road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom.” – William Blake

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