William Blake Quotes

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.

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

Both read the Bible day and night, but thou read black where I read white.

The man who never in his mind and thoughts travel’d to heaven is no artist.

The difference between a bad artist and a good one is: the bad artist seems to copy a great deal; the good one really does.

Great things are done when men and mountains meet.

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

Love is weak when there is more doubt than there is trust, but love is most strong when you learn to trust even with all the doubts. If a thing loves, it is infinite.

What is the price of experience? Do men buy it for a song? Or wisdom for a dance in the street? No, it is bought with the price of all the man hath, his house, his wife, his children.

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

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

Prudence is a rich, ugly, old maid courted by incapacity.

He who desires, but acts not, breeds pestilence.

The man who never alters his opinions is like standing water, and breeds reptiles of the mind.