William Blake Quotes

The true method of knowledge is experiment.

Art can never exist without naked beauty displayed.

Eternity is in love with the productions of time.

It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend.

Great things are done when men and mountains meet.

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

To generalize is to be an idiot.

A fool sees not the same tree that a wise man sees.

A truth that's told with bad intent beats all the lies you can invent.

Art is the tree of life. Science is the tree of death.

When a sinister person means to be your enemy, they always start by trying to become your friend.

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

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.

The road to excess leads to the palace of wisdom...for we never know what is enough until we know what is more than enough.

To the eyes of a miser a guinea is more beautiful than the sun, and a bag worn with the use of money has more beautiful proportions than a vine filled with grapes.

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

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

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.

The road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom.

Excessive sorrow laughs. Excessive joy weeps.

Thy friendship oft has made my heart to ache; do be my enemy - for friendship's sake.

There is a smile of love, And there is a smile of deceit, And there is a smile of smiles In which these two smiles meet.

Sleep, sleep, beauty bright, Dreaming in the joys of night; Sleep, sleep; in thy sleep Little sorrows sit and weep.

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.

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.