William Blake Quotes

Why art thou silent and invisible,
Father of Jealousy?

The true method of knowledge is experiment.

Children of the future age
Reading this indignant page
Know that in a former time
Love, sweet love, was thought a crime

Those who restrain desire do so because theirs is weak enough to be restrained; and the restrainer or reason usurps its place & governs the unwilling.

And we are put on earth a little space,
that we may learn to bear the beams of love;
And these black bodies and this sunburnt face
Is but a cloud, and like a shady grove.

El mejor vino es el más viejo, la mejor agua es la más nueva.

Sing louder around
To the bells' cheerful sound,
While our sports shall be seen
On the ecchoing green.

Commerce is so far from being beneficial to Arts or to Empire, that it is destructive of both, as all their History shows, for the above Reason of Individual Merit being its Great Hatred. Empires flourish till they become Commercial & then they are scattered abroad to the four winds

Down the winding cavern we groped our tedious way, till a void boundless as the nether sky appeared beneath us, and we held by the roots of trees and hung over this immensity; but I said: if you please we will commit ourselves to this void and see whether providence is here also.

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

A fool sees not the same tree that a wise man sees.
He whose face gives no light shall never become a star.

Half Friendship is the bitterest Enmity...

The iron hand crush'd the Tyrant's head
And became a Tyrant in his stead.

Improvement makes straight roads; but the crooked roads without improvement are roads of genius.

I give you the end of a golden string,
Only wind it into a ball,
It will lead you in at Heaven's gate
Built in Jerusalem's wall.