William Blake Quotes

The moon, like a flower in heaven's high bower, with silent delight sits and smiles on the night.

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.

Fun I love, but too much Fun is of all things the most loathsom. Mirth is better than Fun & Happiness is better than Mirth.

Does the Eagle know what is in the pit? Or wilt thou go ask the Mole? Can Wisdom be put in a silver rod? Or Love in a golden bowl?

If you have form'd a Circle to go into, / Go into it yourself & see how you would do.

A dog starved at his master's gate
Predicts the ruin of the state.

Expect poison from the standing water.

Love to faults is always blind,
Always is to joys inclined,
Lawless, winged, and unconfined,
And breaks all chains from every mind.

الفن والعلم أساس الإمبراطورية، لو أنك أزحتهما، أو قلّلت من شأنهما، لانتهى أمر الإمبراطورية. الإمبراطورية تتبع الفن وليس العكس، كما يفترض الإنكليز.

For all eternity, I forgive you and you forgive me.

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

The true method of knowledge is experiment.

How can a bird that is born for joy
Sit in a cage and sing?

Once a dream did weave a shade
O'er my angel-guarded bed,
That an emmet lost its way
Where on grass methought I lay.

Troubled, wildered, and forlorn,
Dark, benighted, travel-worn,
Over many a tangle spray,
All heart-broke, I heard her say:

'Oh my children! do they cry,
Do they hear their father sigh?
Now they look abroad to see,
Now return and weep for me.'

Pitying, I dropped a tear:
But I saw a glow-worm near,
Who replied, 'What wailing wight
Calls the watchman of the night?

'I am set to light the ground,
While the beetle goes his round:
Follow now the beetle's hum;
Little wanderer, hie thee home!

Can I see anothers woe,
And not be in sorrow too.
Can I see anothers grief,
And not seek for kind relief.