William Blake Quotes

What is grand is necessarily obscure to weak men. That which can be made explicit to the idiot is not worth my care.

I'll shade him from the heat till he can bear
To lean in joy upon our Father's knee;
And then I'll stand and stroke his silver hair,
And be like him and he will then love me.

We are here to learn to endure the beams of love.

Better to shun the bait than struggle in the snare.

The pride of the peacock is the glory of God.
The lust of the goat is the bounty of God.
The wrath of the lion is the wisdom of God.
The nakedness of woman is the work of God.

The bird a nest, the spider a web, man friendship.

And Priests in black gowns, were walking their rounds,
And binding with briars, my joys & desires.

"The Lily of the valley, breathing in the humble grass
Answer'd the lovely maid and said: "I am a watry weed,
And I am very small, and love to dwell in lowly vales;
So weak, the gilded butterfly scarce perches on my head;
Yet I am visited from heaven, and he that smiles on all
Walks in the valley and each morn over me spreads his hand,
Saying: 'Rejoice, thou humble grass, thou new-born lily flower,

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

As a man is, so he sees. As the eye is formed, such are its powers.

Eternity is in love with the productions of time. The busy bee has no time for sorrow. The hours of folly are measur’d by the clock, but of wisdom: no clock can measure.

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

When nations grow old,
the Arts grow cold,
And Commerce settles on every tree:
And the poor and the old
Can live upon gold,
For all are born poor. Aged sixty-three.

As the air to a bird or the sea to a fish, so is contempt to the contemptible.

The morning comes, the night decays, the watchmen leave their stations.