William Blake

Poet Artist English 1757 – 1827

English poet and artist known for prophetic and mystical works.

366 quotes

"Every thing that lives, Lives not alone, nor for itself."
Relationships
"To Mercy, Pity, Peace and Love All pray in their distress."
"Little Lamb, God bless thee!"
Kindness
"Does the Imagination flow or does it circulate?"
Creativity
"Think in the morning. Act in the noon. Eat in the evening. Sleep in the night."
Wisdom
"When true Imagination appears in Art, the Artist has become the Mediator between God and Man."
Art
"The Eternal Body of Man is the Imagination, that is, God himself."
Faith
"I see the Past, Present, and Future existing all at once Before me."
Time
"A Poet, a Painter, a Musician, an Architect: the man or woman who is not one of these is not a Christian."
Creativity
"Milton, thou shouldst be living at this hour."
Literature
"The road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom."
Wisdom
"A fool sees not the same tree that a wise man sees."
"He who would do good to another must do it in Minute Particulars."
Kindness
"God is not a Mathematical Diagram."
Philosophy
"Great things are done when Men and Mountains meet."
Power
"Christianity is art, and art is truth."
Faith
"Rebellion against tyrants is obedience to God."
Justice
"The reason Milton wrote in fetters when he wrote of Angels & God, and at liberty when of Devils & Hell, is because he was a true Poet."
Literature
"Man has a Body; that Body is a portion of Soul."
Philosophy
"The most pathetic thing in the world is a politician."
Politics
"The worst of men are not those who break their laws but those who make them."
Justice
"Tyrants would want to make all equal that they might all be slaves."
Freedom
"The Whole Business of Man Is The Arts and All things Else are Trifles."
Art
"Fear in a handful of dust."
Fear
"Abstinence sows sand all over the ruddy limbs and flaming hair."
Philosophy
"The cut worm forgives the plow."
"Sooner murder an infant in its cradle than nurse unacted desires."
"If you have formed a circle to go into, go into it."
Courage
"The proudest River in the World flows from Humble Sources."
"The Eagle never lost so much time, as when he submitted to learn of the Crow."