48 quotes by William Blake

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

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

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

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“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.” — William Blake

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“Both read the Bible day and night, but thou read black where I read white.” — William Blake

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

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“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

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“Exuberance is beauty.” — William Blake

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“Imagination is the real and eternal world of which this vegetable universe is but a faint shadow.” — William Blake

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“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

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“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

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

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“Excessive sorrow laughs. Excessive joy weeps.” — William Blake

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“The man who never in his mind and thoughts travel'd to heaven is no artist.” — William Blake

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“A truth that's told with bad intent beats all the lies you can invent.” — William Blake

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“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.” — William Blake

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“If the doors of perception were cleansed every thing would appear to man as it is, Infinite. For man has closed himself up, till he sees all things thro' narrow chinks of his cavern.” — William Blake

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“Think in the morning. Act in the noon. Eat in the evening. Sleep in the night.” — William Blake

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“Think in the morning. Act in the noon. Eat in the evening. Sleep in the night.” — William Blake

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

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“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

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“Fun I love, but too much fun is of all things the most loathsome. Mirth is better than fun, and happiness is better than mirth.” — William Blake

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“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

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“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

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“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

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