William Blake

Poet Artist English 1757 – 1827

English poet and artist known for prophetic and mystical works.

366 quotes

"War on War is his Cry, Peace Peace to all who give Peace."
Peace
"All that lives is Holy."
Faith
"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."
Imagination
"The road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom."
Wisdom
"If the doors of perception were cleansed every thing would appear to man as it is, Infinite."
"I am not a visionary of visions but of imagination only."
Creativity
"The man who never in his mind and thoughts travelled to heaven is no artist."
Art
"Without Contraries is no progression."
Change
"Energy is Eternal Delight."
Happiness
"The tygers of wrath are wiser than the horses of instruction."
Wisdom
"Sooner murder an infant in its cradle than nurse unacted desires."
Courage
"All that we see is made by imagination."
Imagination
"How do you know but ev'ry bird that cuts the airy way, is an immense world of delight, clos'd by your senses five?"
Nature
"The poet is a light and winged thing, and holy."
Literature
"What is now proved was once only imagin'd."
Creativity
"Exuberance is Beauty."
Beauty
"O Rose thou art sick."
Truth
"Love seeketh not itself to please, nor for itself hath any care."
Love
"The Savage in the wilderness builds for himself a Rule and a Law from the World of Desire."
Freedom
"The nature of Hatred is that it is only nourished in presence of its enemy."
Peace
"Art is the Tree of Life. Science is the Tree of Death."
Art
"To create a little flower is the labour of ages."
Creativity
"I must Create a System, or be enslav'd by another Mans."
Freedom
"Every harlot was a virgin once."
Truth
"The cistern contains; the fountain overflows."
Creativity
"Prisons are built with stones of Law, Brothels with bricks of Religion."
Justice
"If you have formed a Circle to go into, Go into it yourself & See how you would do."
Philosophy
"Mock on, Mock on Voltaire, Rousseau; Mock on, Mock on; 'tis all in vain!"
Philosophy
"The cut worm forgives the plow."
Kindness
"As a man is, So he Sees."