William Blake Quotes

The tygers of wrath are wiser than the horses of instruction.

The eagle never lost so much time as when he submitted to learn of the crow.

Always be ready to speak your mind, and a base man will avoid you.

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.

Prisons are built with stones of law; brothels with bricks of religion.

All wholesome food is caught without a net or a trap.

The hours of folly are measur'd by the clock, but of wisdom no clock can measure.

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

He who desires but acts not breeds pestilence.

If the doors of perception were cleansed, everything would appear to man as it is: infinite.

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.

The reason Milton wrote in fetters when he wrote of Angels and God, and at liberty when of Devils and Hell, is because he was a true poet and of the Devils' party without knowing it.

Without contraries there is no progression. Attraction and repulsion, reason and energy, love and hate are necessary to human existence.

Rintrah roars and shakes his fires in the burden'd air;
Hungry clouds swag on the deep.

The Foundation of Empire is Art & Science Remove them or Degrade them & the Empire is No More — Empire follows Art & Not Vice Versa as Englishmen suppose.