Quotes from William Blake

Lives in eternity's sun rise.

Christ's crucifix shall be made an excuse for executing criminals.

If you would help another man, you must do so in minute particulars.

The Stolen and Perverted Writings of Homer & Ovid, of Plato & Cicero, which all men ought to contemn, are set up by artifice against the Sublime of the Bible

Men are admitted into heaven not because they have curbed or governed their passions, but because they have cultivate their understandings.

The child's toys and the old man's reasons are the fruits of two seasons.

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.

The Whole Business of Man is The Arts, & All Things Common.

Naught can deform the human race Like to the armor's iron brace.

Christianity is art and not money. Money is its curse.

To the eyes of a miser a guinea is more beautiful than the sun, and a bag worn with the use of money has more beautiful proportions than a vine filled with grapes.

Where there is money there is no art.

Where any view of money exists, art cannot be carried on.

O Earth, O Earth, return! Arise from out the dewy grass; Night is worn; And the morn Rises from the slumbrous mass.

My mother bore me in the southern wild, And I am black, but O! my soul is white; White as an angel is the English child, But I am black as if bereaved of light.

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

Poetry fettered, fetters the human race. Nations are destroyed or flourish in proportion as their poetry, painting, and music are destroyed or flourish.

To see a world in a grain of sand and a heaven in a wildflower.

Hold infinity in the palm of your hand.

To create a little flower is the labour of ages.

When Sir Joshua Reynolds died All Nature was degraded

Nature has no outline. Imagination has.

When Sir Joshua Reynolds died All Nature was degraded; The King dropped a tear in the Queen's ear, And all his pictures faded.

It is an easy thing to talk of patience to the afflicted.