William Blake Quotes

For every thing that lives is Holy.

Los Sexos nacidos del Orgullo y la Vergüenza
florecieron en la mañana y en la noche murieron;
mas la Piedad cambió la Muerte en Sueño;
los Sexos se irguieron para obrar y llorar.

The eagle never lost so much time as when he submitted to learn of the crow.

The modest Rose puts forth a thorn,
The humble sheep a threat'ning horn:
While the Lily white shall in love delight,
Nor a thorn nor a threat stain her beauty bright.

What is Grand is necessarily obscure to Weak men. That which can be made Explicit to the idiot is not worth my care.

I know of no other Christianity and of no other Gospel than the liberty both of body & mind to exercise the Divine Arts of Imagination
Imagination the real & eternal World of which this Vegetable Universe is but a faint shadow & in which we shall live in our Eternal or Imaginative Bodies, when these Vegetable Mortal Bodies are no more. The Apostles knew of no other Gospel.

Man's desires are limited by his perceptions; none can desire what he has not perceiv'd.

When a sinister person means to be your enemy, they always start by trying to become your friend.

I am not ashamed, afraid, or averse to tell you what Ought to be Told: That I am under the direction of Messengers from Heaven, Daily & Nightly;

If the fool would persist in his folly he would become wise.

He who loves feels love descend into him and if he has wisdom may perceive it from the Poetic Genius which is the Lord.

The road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom...You never know what is enough until you know what is more than enough.

In the morning glad I see
My foe outstretch'd beneath the tree.

Prisons are built with stones of law; brothels with bricks of religion.

The Devil answer'd: bray a fool in a morter with wheat, yet shall not his folly be beaten out of him; if Jesus Christ is the greatest man, you ought to love him in the greatest degree; now hear how he has given his sanction to the law of ten commandments: did he not mock at the sabbath, and so mock the sabbaths God? murder those who were murder'd because of him? turn away the law from the woman taken in adultery? steal the labor of others to support him? bear false witness when he omitted making a defense before Pilate? covet when he pray'd for his disciples, and when he bid them shake off the dust of their feet against such as refused to lodge them? I tell you, no virtue can exist without breaking these ten commandments; Jesus was all virtue, and acted from impulse, not from rules.