Quotes by William Blake

The thankful receiver bears a plentiful harvest.

Where mercy, love, and pity dwell, there God is dwelling too.

The true method of knowledge is experiment.

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.

A truth thats told with bad intent beats all the lies you can invent.

The weak in courage is strong in cunning.

Great things are done when men and mountains meet.

Travelers repose and dream among my leaves.

To see a world in a grain of sand and heaven in a wild flower Hold infinity in the palm of your hand and eternity in an hour.

Art can never exist without naked beauty displayed.

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

The bird a nest, the spider a web, man friendship.

Opposition is true friendship.

Can I see anothers woe, and not be in sorrow too? Can I see anothers grief, and not seek for kind relief?

No bird soars too high if he soars with his own wings.

Want of money and the distress of a thief can never be alleged as the cause of his thieving, for many honest people endure greater hardships with fortitude. We must therefore seek the cause elsewhere than in want of money, for that is the misers passion, not the thief s.

The hours of folly are measured by the clock; but of wisdom, no clock can measure.

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.

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

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