William Blake Quotes

Poetry, Painting & Music, the three Powers in man of conversing with Paradise, which the flood did not sweep away.

The weak in courage is strong in cunning.

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

We are not meant to resolve all contradictions but to live with them and rise above them.

The true method of knowledge is experiment.

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

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

For everything that lives is holy, life delights in life.

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.

I must create a system or be enslaved by another mans; I will not reason and compare: my business is to create.

There is no mistake so great as the mistake of not going on.

If a thing loves, it is infinite.

Why stand we here trembling around, calling on God for help, and not ourselves, in whom God dwells?

Opposition is true friendship.

If the fool would persist in his folly he would become wise.

It is not because angels are holier than men or devils that makes them angels, but because they do not expect holiness from one another, but from God only.