William Blake Quotes - Page 3

Quotes about:

• When the doors of perception are cleansed, men will see things as they truly are, infinite.

  William Blake

  Wisdom, Men, Doors

  31 Copy quote

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

  William Blake

  Artist, Men, Traitor

  15 Copy quote

• Mysteries are not to be solved. They eye goes blind when it only wants to see why.

  William Blake

  Eye, Want, Mystery

  35 Copy quote

• The thankful receiver bears a plentiful harvest.

  William Blake

  Happiness, Thank You, Thanksgiving

  William Blake, David Fuller (2000). “William Blake: Selected Poetry and Prose”, p.133, Pearson Education

  135 Copy quote

• To generalize is to be an idiot.

  William Blake

  Wisdom, Smart, Teaching

  "Annotations to The Works of Sir Joshua Reynolds" (ca. 1798 - 1809)

  30 Copy quote

• He who sees the Infinite in all things sees God.

  William Blake

  Religion, Spirit, Infinite

  William Blake (2008). “The Complete Poetry and Prose of William Blake”, p.3, Univ of California Press

  24 Copy quote

• The road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom.

  William Blake

  Life, Greed, Experience

  The Marriage of Heaven and Hell "Proverbs of Hell" (1790 - 1793)

  72 Copy quote

• Each man is haunted until his humanity awakens.

  William Blake

  Men, Humanity

  48 Copy quote

• I see the Past, Present & Future existing all at once Before me.

  William Blake

  Past, Past Present Future, Past Present

  William Blake (2008). “The Complete Poetry and Prose of William Blake”, p.159, Univ of California Press

  18 Copy quote

• Always be ready to speak your mind, and a base man will avoid you.

  William Blake

  Truth, Men, Speak Your Mind

  William Blake (2005). “Collected Poems”, p.167, Routledge

  52 Copy quote

• Love to faults is always blind, always is to joy inclined. Lawless, winged, and unconfined, and breaks all chains from every mind.

  William Blake

  Love, Joy, Mind

  William Blake, David Fuller (2000). “William Blake: Selected Poetry and Prose”, p.156, Pearson Education

  67 Copy quote

• He whose face gives no light, shall never become a star.

  William Blake

  Happiness, Stars, Light

  William Blake (1977). “The Portable William Blake”, p.184, Penguin

  42 Copy quote

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

  William Blake

  Death, Art, Science

  William Blake (1968). “William Blake. Textes choisis et presentes par Francis Leaud”

  21 Copy quote

• 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

  Life, Men, Weak Man

  William Blake (2008). “The Complete Poetry and Prose of William Blake”, p.702, Univ of California Press

  57 Copy quote

• The world of imagination is the world of eternity.

  William Blake

  Imagination, World, Eternity

  William Blake (1977). “The Portable William Blake”, p.446, Penguin

  12 Copy quote

• And we are put on earth a little space, That we may learn to bear the beams of love.

  William Blake

  Love, Space, Earth

  "Complete Writings: With Variant Readings".

  207 Copy quote

• Work up imagination to the state of vision.

  William Blake

  Imagination, Vision, States

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

  13 Copy quote

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

  William Blake

  Law, Religion, Stones

  William Blake, “The Marriage Of Heaven And Hell”

  36 Copy quote

• Without Unceasing Practice nothing can be done. Practice is Art. If you leave off you are lost.

  William Blake

  Art, Practice, Done

  William Blake, David Fuller (2000). “William Blake: Selected Poetry and Prose”, p.362, Pearson Education

  44 Copy quote

• 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

  Nature, Moving, Eye

  William Blake (1977). “The Portable William Blake”, p.136, Penguin

  182 Copy quote

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

  William Blake

  Love, Romantic, Loving Someone

  "Jerusalem: A Simplified Version".

  88 Copy quote

• To the eyes of the man of imagination, nature is imagination itself.

  William Blake

  Nature, Eye, Science

  William Blake (1977). “The Portable William Blake”, p.136, Penguin

  86 Copy quote

• Every mortal loss is an immortal gain.

  William Blake

  Loss, Gains, Immortal

  William Blake (1977). “The Portable William Blake”, p.138, Penguin

  14 Copy quote

• General knowledges are those knowledges that idiots possess.

  William Blake

  Idiot, General Knowledge

  "Annotations to The Works of Sir Joshua Reynolds" (ca. 1798 - 1809)

  37 Copy quote

• We are here to learn to endure the beams of love

  William Blake

  Beam, Endure

  10 Copy quote

Page 3 of 19

First

← Prev

1

2

3

4

5

6

7

8

9

10

Next →

• facebook
• twitter
• googleplus
• email
• linkedin