Quotes from William Blake

Improvement makes strait roads, but the crooked roads without Improvement, are roads of Genius.

Think in the morning. Act in the noon. Eat in the evening. Sleep in the night.

He who binds to himself a joy Does the winged life destroy; But he who kisses the joy as it flies Lives in eternity's sun rise.

This life's dim windows of the soul Distorts the heavens from pole to pole And leads you to believe a lie When you see with, not through, the eye.

I was angry with my friend: I told my wrath, my wrath did end. I was angry with my foe: I told it not, my wrath did grow.

The most sublime act is to set another before you.

A good local pub has much in common with a church, except that a pub is warmer, and there's more conversation.

And we are put on this earth a little space that we might learn to bear the beams of love.

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.

Better to shun the bait than struggle in the snare.

Enlightenment means taking full responsibility for your life.

A Robin Redbreast in a Cage Puts all Heaven in a Rage. A dove house fill'd with doves and pigeons Shudders Hell thro' all its regions. A Dog starv'd at his Master's Gate Predicts the ruin of the State. A Horse misus'd upon the Road Calls to Heaven for Human blood. Each outcry of the hunted Hare A fiber from the Brain does tear.

The fool who persists in his folly will become wise.

For every thing that lives is Holy.

Man was made for joy and woe Then when this we rightly know Through the world we safely go. Joy and woe are woven fine A clothing for the soul to bind.

Imagination is the real and eternal world of which this vegetable universe is but a faint shadow.

Exuberance is beauty.

For I dance And drink and sing, Till some blind hand Shall brush my wing. If thought is life And strength and breath And the want Of thought is death Then am I A happy fly If I live Or if I die

Can I see anothers woe, And not be in sorrow too. Can I see anothers grief, And not seek for kind relief. - On Anothers Sorrow

When i tell the truth, it is not for the sake of convincing those who do not know it, but for the sake of defending those that do.

Everything to be imagined is an image of truth.

Expect poison from the standing water.

How can a bird that is born for joy Sit in a cage and sing?

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