Top 15 William Blake Quotes

To see a World in a Grain of Sand
And a Heaven in a Wild Flower,
Hold Infinity in the palm of your hand
And Eternity in an hour.

A truth that's told with bad intent
Beats all the lies you can invent.

It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend.

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.

If a thing loves, it is infinite.

Tyger! Tyger! burning bright
In the forests of the night,
What immortal hand or eye
Could frame thy fearful symmetry?

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

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.

What is now proved was once only imagined.

I must create a system, or be enslaved by another man's. I will not reason and compare: my business is to create.

The imagination is not a state: it is the human existence itself.

The man who never alters his opinion is like standing water, and breeds reptiles of the mind.

In the universe, there are things that are known, and things that are unknown, and in between, there are doors.

To generalize is to be an idiot.

The road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom.