William Blake Quotes That Will Inspire You to Live Your Best Life
William Blake quotes that inspire a great attitude towards life That Will Inspire You to Live Your Best Life
1. A truth that's told with bad intentBeats all the lies you can invent.
Auguries of Innocence
Author:- William Blake
Category:- truth
2. Better to shun the bait than struggle in the snare.
Author:- William Blake
Category:- wisdom
3. Eternity is in love with the productions of time.
The Marriage of Heaven and Hell
Author:- William Blake
Category:- love
4. He who binds to himself a joyDoes the winged life destroy;But he who kisses the joy as it fliesLives in eternity's sun rise.
Author:- William Blake
Category:- wisdom
5. He whose face gives no light, shall never become a star.
Author:- William Blake
Category:- happiness
6. If a thing loves, it is infinite.
Author:- William Blake
Category:- love
7. If the doors of perception were cleansed, everything would appear to man as it is - infinite.
Author:- William Blake
Category:- truth
8. The road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom.
The Marriage of Heaven and Hell
Author:- William Blake
Category:- wisdom
9. What is grand is necessarily obscure to weak men. That which can be made explicit to the idiot is not worth my care.
Author:- William Blake
Category:- wisdom
10. 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.
Author:- William Blake
Category:- truth
11. A Robin Redbreast in a CagePuts all Heaven in a Rage.A dove house fill’d with doves and pigeonsShudders Hell thro’ all its regions.A Dog starv’d at his Master’s GatePredicts the ruin of the State.A Horse misus’d upon the RoadCalls to Heaven for Human blood.Each outcry of the hunted HareA fiber from the Brain does tear.
Author:- William Blake
Category:- poetry
12. Art is the Tree of Life, Science is the Tree of Death.
Author:- William Blake
Category:- science
13. But to go to school in a summer morn,O! It drives all joy away;Under a cruel eye outworn,The little ones spend the dayIn sighing and dismay.
Author:- William Blake
Category:- poetry
14. excuse my enthusiasm or rather madness, for I am really drunk with intellectual vision whenever I take a pencil or graver into my hand.
William Blake
Author:- William Blake
Category:- inspiration
15. He who replies to words of doubtdoth put the light of knowledge out.
Auguries of Innocence
Author:- William Blake
Category:- knowledge,science
16. I must create a system, or be enslaved by another man's. I will not reason and compare: my business is to create.
Jerusalem: The Emanation of the Giant Albion
Author:- William Blake
Category:- poetry
17. Imagination, the real and eternal world of which this Vegetable Universe is but a faint shadow. What is the life of Man but Art and Science?
Jerusalem: The Emanation of the Giant Albion
Author:- William Blake
Category:- science
18. Improvement makes strait roads, but the crooked roads without Improvement, are roads of Genius.
The Marriage of Heaven and Hell: In Full Color
Author:- William Blake
Category:- inspiration
19. London I wander thro' each charter'd street, Near where the charter'd Thames does flow. And mark in every face I meet Marks of weakness, marks of woe. In every cry of every Man, In every Infants cry of fear, In every voice: in every ban, The mind-forg'd manacles I hear How the Chimney-sweepers cry Every blackning Church appalls, And the hapless Soldiers sigh Runs in blood down Palace walls But most thro' midnight streets I hear How the youthful Harlots curse Blasts the new-born Infants tear And blights with plagues the Marriage hearse.
Songs of Innocence and of Experience
Author:- William Blake
Category:- poetry
20. May God us keepFrom Single vision and Newton's sleep.
Author:- William Blake
Category:- science
21. The Garden of LoveI went to the Garden of Love, And saw what I never had seen: A Chapel was built in the midst, Where I used to play on the green. And the gates of this Chapel were shut, And 'Thou shalt not' writ over the door; So I turn'd to the Garden of Love, That so many sweet flowers bore. And I saw it was filled with graves, And tomb-stones where flowers should be: And Priests in black gowns, were walking their rounds, And binding with briars, my joys & desires.
Songs of Innocence and of Experience
Author:- William Blake
Category:- poetry
22. The lamb misused breeds public strifeAnd yet forgives the butcher's knife.
Author:- William Blake
Category:- poetry
23. The Prophets Isaiah and Ezekiel dined with me, and I asked them how they dared so roundly to assert, that God spoke to them; and whether they did not think at the time, that they would be misunderstood, & so be the cause of imposition.Isaiah answer'd, I saw no God, nor heard any, in a finite organical perception; but my senses discover'd the infinite in every thing, and as I was then persuaded, & remain confirm'd; that the voice of honest indignation is the voice of God, I cared not for consequences but wrote.
The Marriage of Heaven and Hell: In Full Color
Author:- William Blake
Category:- inspiration
24. 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.
Author:- William Blake
Category:- inspiration
25. Time is the mercy of Eternity; without Time's swiftness/ Which is the swiftest of all things: all were eternal torment.
Milton a Poem
Author:- William Blake
Category:- time
26. 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.
Auguries of Innocence
Author:- William Blake
Category:- poetry
27. Truth can never be told so as to be understood and not be believed.
Author:- William Blake
Category:- poetry
28. What is now proved was once only imagined.
Author:- William Blake
Category:- knowledge
29. You never know what is enough unless you know what is more than enough.
The Marriage of Heaven and Hell: In Full Color
Author:- William Blake
Category:- knowledge
