William Blake Quotes

Where there is money there is no art.

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I must create a system or be enslaved by another mans; I will not reason and compare: my business is to create.

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Bring me an axe and spade, Bring me a winding-sheet; When I my grave have made Let winds and tempests beat: Then down I'll lie as cold as clay. True love doth pass away!

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Exuberance is beauty.

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The apple tree never asks the beech how he shall grow, nor the lion, the horse, how he shall take his prey.

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Rhetoric completes the tools of learning. Dialectic zeros in on the logic of things, of particular systems of thought or subjects. Rhetoric takes the next grand step and brings all these subjects together into one whole.

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I care not whether a man is good or evil; all that I care / Is whether he is a wise man or a fool. Go! put off holiness, / And put on intellect.

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He who wants, but doesn't act, is a pest.

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Nothing can be more contemptible than to suppose Public Records to be true.

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When my mother died I was very young, And my father sold me while yet my tongue Could scarcely cry weep weep weep weep. So your chimneys I sweep, and in soot I sleep.

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Can I see a falling tear, And not feel my sorrow's share?

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The Prophets Isaiah and Ezekiel dined with me, and I asked them how they dared so roundly to assert, that God spoke to them; and whether they did not think at the time, that they would be misunderstood, & so be the cause of imposition. Isaiah answer'd, I saw no God, nor heard any, in a finite organical perception; but my senses discover'd the infinite in every thing, and as I was then persuaded, & remain confirm'd; that the voice of honest indignation is the voice of God, I cared not for consequences but wrote.

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To generalize is to be an idiot. To particularize is the alone distinction of merit. General knowledge are those knowledge that idiots possess.

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To cast aside from Poetry, all that is not Inspiration

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He who sees the Infinite in all things sees God.

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The most sublime act is to set another before you.

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Work up imagination to the state of vision.

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I heard an Angel singing; When the day was springing, Mercy, Pity, Peace; Is the world's release.

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The Woman that does not love your Frowns Will never embrace your smiles.

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I have mental joys and mental health, Mental friends and mental wealth, I've a wife that I love and that loves me; I've all but riches bodily.

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