Quotes by

William Blake

Christianity is art and not money. Money is its curse. – William Blake

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

All futurity seems teeming with endless destruction never to be repelled; Desperate remorse swallows the present in a quenchless rage. – William Blake

To create a little flower is the labor of ages. – William Blake

Joys impregnate. Sorrows bring forth. – William Blake

The strongest poison ever known came from Caesars laurel crown. – William Blake

He whose face gives no light, shall never become a star. – William Blake

Expect poison from standing water. – William Blake

Energy is eternal delight. – William Blake

Then my verse I dishonor, my pictures despise, my person degrade and my temper chastise; and the pen is my terror, the pencil my shame; and my talents I bury, and dead is my fame. – William Blake

Every Night and every Morn
Some to Misery are born.
Every Morn and every Night
Some are born to Sweet Delight,
Some are born to Endless Night. – William Blake

Cruelty has a Human Heart, And jealousy a Human Face; Terror the Human Form Divine, And secrecy the Human Dress. The Human Dress is forged Iron, The Human Form a Fiery Forge, The Human Face a Furnace seal d, The Human Heart its hungry gorge. – William Blake

Each man is haunted until his humanity awakens. – William Blake

Embraces are cominglings from the head even to the feet, and not a pompous high priest entering by a secret place. – William Blake

The Goddess Fortune is the devils servant, ready to kiss any ones ass. – William Blake

A truth thats told with bad intent
Beats all the lies you can invent. – William Blake

This lifes 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. – William Blake

He who desires but does not act, breeds pestilence. – William Blake

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

If the doors of perception were cleansed every thing would appear to man as it is: infinite.
For man has closed himself up, till he sees all things thro narrow chinks of his cavern. – William Blake