William Blake Quotes

When my mother died I was very young,
And my father sold me while yet my tongue
Could scarcely cry 'weep! 'weep! 'weep!'weep!
So your chimneys I sweep, and in soot I sleep.

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.

Every Thing has its Vermin O Spectre of the Sleeping Dead!

A man can't soar too high, when he flies with his own wings.

Make your own rules or be a slave to another man's.

Those who restrain desire do so because theirs is weak enough to be restrained.

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.

[T]he man who never alters his opinions is like standing water, and breeds reptiles of the mind.

He whose face gives no light, shall never become a star.

That which can be made Explicit to the idiot is not worth my care.

This life's dim windows of the soul
Distorts the heavens from pole to pole
And leads you to believe a lie
When you see with, not through, the eye.

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.

Joys impregnate. Sorrows bring forth.

Never seek to tell thy love,
Love that never told can be;
For the gentle wind doth move
Silently, invisibly.

I told my love, I told my love,
I told her all my heart,
Trembling, cold, in ghastly fears.
Ah! she did depart!

Soon after she was gone from me,
A traveller came by,
Silently, invisibly:
He took her with a sigh.

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.