William Blake Quotes

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  In the universe, there are things that are known, and things that are unknown, and in between, there are doors.

  William Blake

  Inspirational, Life, Adventure

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

  William Blake

  Inspirational, Happiness, Peace

  'Auguries of Innocence' (c.1803) l. 1

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• We are not meant to resolve all contradictions but to live with them and rise above them.

  William Blake

  Rise Above, Contradiction, Resolve

  "Thoughts in Solitude". Book by Thomas Merton, 1958.

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• Make your own rules or be a slave to another man's.

  William Blake

  Men, Slave, Be A Slave

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  If the doors of perception were cleansed everything would appear to man as it is, infinite.

  William Blake

  Inspirational, Life, Spiritual

  The Marriage of Heaven and Hell "A Memorable Fancy" plate 14 (1790 - 1793). Inspired the title of Aldous Huxley's 1954 book about drug experimentation, The Doors of Perception, which in turn inspired the name of the 1960s rock group The Doors.

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• The imagination is not a state: it is the human existence itself.

  William Blake

  Imagination, States, Existence

  William Blake (2008). “The Complete Poetry and Prose of William Blake”, p.132, Univ of California Press

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• The person who does not believe in miracles surely makes it certain that he or she will never take part in one.

  William Blake

  Believe, Miracle, Doe

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• As we are, so we see.

  William Blake

  Belief

  "As a Man Is, So He Sees" by David Berreby, bigthink.com. 2017.

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• The man who never alters his opinions is like standing water, and breeds reptiles of the mind.

  William Blake

  Change, Wisdom, Men

  William Blake, “The Marriage Of Heaven And Hell”

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  What is now proved was once only imagined.

  William Blake

  Positive, Spiritual, Positivity

  William Blake, David Fuller (2000). “William Blake: Selected Poetry and Prose”, p.132, Pearson Education

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• Joy and woe are woven fine,
  A clothing for the soul divine.
  Under every grief and pine
  Runs a joy with silken twine.

  William Blake

  Inspirational, Life, Running

  William Blake (1868). “Songs of Innocence and of Experience, Showing the Two Contrary States of the Human Soul”, p.98

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• 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

  Beautiful, Attitude, Eye

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• 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

  Strong, Love Is, Doubt

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• Enlightenment means taking full responsibility for your life.

  William Blake

  Mean, Responsibility, Enlightenment

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• I see through my eyes, not with them.

  William Blake

  Eye, Through My Eyes

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• You've always had the power right there in your shoes, you just had to learn it for yourself.

  William Blake

  Learning, Shoes

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• Better to shun the bait than struggle in the snare.

  William Blake

  Struggle, Temptation, Bait

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• Every man who is not an artist is a traitor to his own nature.

  William Blake

  Artist, Men, Traitor

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• He who kisses joy as it flies by will live in eternity's sunrise.

  William Blake

  Kissing, Joy, Sunrise

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• You become what you behold.

  William Blake

  Inspiration, Recovery, Addiction

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• Work up imagination to the state of vision.

  William Blake

  Imagination, Vision, States

  William Blake (1906). “Illustrations of the Book of Job”

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• Poetry, Painting & Music, the three Powers in man of conversing with Paradise, which the flood did not sweep away.

  William Blake

  Men, Three, Paradise

  William Blake (2008). “The Complete Poetry and Prose of William Blake”, p.559, Univ of California Press

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

  William Blake

  Art, Business, Creativity

  'Jerusalem' (1815) 'Chapter 1' (plate 10, l. 20)

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• Do what you will this life's a fiction, And is made up of contradiction.

  William Blake

  History, Fiction, World

  "The Selected Poems of William Blake".

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• Mans desires are limited by his perceptions; none can desire what he has not perceived.

  William Blake

  Perception, Desire

  William Blake (2008). “The Complete Poetry and Prose of William Blake”, p.2, Univ of California Press

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