Quotes from William Blake

The world of imagination is the world of eternity.

Art degraded, Imagination denied.

Exuberance is beauty.

Those who restrain their desires, do so because theirs is weak enough to be restrained.

Those who enter the gates of heaven are not beings who have no passions or who have curbed the passions, but those who have cultivated an understanding of them.

A man can't soar too high, when he flies with his own wings.

The weak in courage is strong in cunning.

Love seeketh not itself to please, nor for itself hath any care, but for another gives its ease, and builds a Heaven in Hell's despair.

The soul of sweet delight, can never be defiled.

What is now proved was once only imagined.

He who sees the Infinite in all things sees God.

Vision is the end of religion.

I am in you and you in me, mutual in divine love.

General knowledges are those knowledges that idiots possess.

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

He who replies to words of doubt doth put the light of knowledge out.

Enthusiastic Admiration is the first Principle of Knowledge and its last.

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

Do what you will this life's a fiction, And is made up of contradiction.

He who desires, but acts not, breeds pestilence.

As a man is, so he sees. As the eye is formed, such are its powers.

To the eyes of the man of imagination, nature is imagination itself.

Execution is the chariot of genius.

Innate ideas are in every man, born with him; they are truly himself. The man who says that we have no innate ideas must be a fool and knave, having no conscience or innate science.