Quotes by William Blake

“If a thing loves, it is infinite.”

“We live as One Man for contracting our infinite senses we behold multitude or expanding: we behold as one. ”

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

“Eternity is in love with the productions of time.”

“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.”

“What is now proved was once only imagined.”

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

“My mother groaned, my father wept,into the dangerous world I leapt.”

“Exuberance is beauty.”

“A truth that's told with bad intentBeats all the lies you can invent.”

“The glory of Christianity is to conquer by forgiveness.”

“Did he smile his work to see? Did he who made the Lamb make thee?”

“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.”

“If the doors of perception were cleansed, everything would appear to man as it is - infinite.”

“For every thing that lives is Holy.”

“The Prophets Isaiah and Ezekiel dined with me, and I asked them how they dared so roundly to assert, that God spoke to them; and whether they did not think at the time, that they would be misunders...”

“When the stars threw down their spears, and watered heaven with their tears, did he smile his work to see? Did he who made the Lamb make thee?”

“The road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom.”

“Better to shun the bait than struggle in the snare.”

“What is grand is necessarily obscure to weak men. That which can be made explicit to the idiot is not worth my care.”