Man was made for joy and woe, and when this we rightly know through the world we safely go. Joy and woe… — William Blake Copy Share Image
Nature in darkness groans and men are bound to sullen contemplation in the night: restless they turn on beds of sorrow; in… — William Blake Copy Share Image
The worship of God is, Honouring his gifts in other men each according to his genius, and loving the greatest men best;… — William Blake Copy Share Image
Man was made for joy and woe Then when this we rightly know Through the world we safely go. Joy and woe… — William Blake Copy Share Image
To the eyes of the man of imagination, nature is imagination itself. — William Blake Copy Share Image
If the doors of perception were cleansed everything would appear to man as it is, infinite. For man has closed himself up,… — William Blake Copy Share Image
To Mercy Pity Peace and Love All pray in their distress, And to these virtues of delight Return their thankfulness. For Mercy… — William Blake Copy Share Image
What is it men in women do require: The lineaments of gratified desire. What is it women do in men require: The… — William Blake Copy Share Image
The inquiry in England is not whether a man has talents and genius, but whether he is passive and polite and a… — William Blake Copy Share Image
It is not because angels are holier than men or devils that makes them angels, but because they do not expect holiness… — William Blake Copy Share Image
A musician, an artist, an architect: the man or woman who is not one of these is not a Christian. — William Blake Copy Share Image
The child's toys and the old man's reasons are the fruits of two seasons. — William Blake Copy Share Image
The Man who never in his Mind & Thoughts travel'd to Heaven Is No Artist. — William Blake Copy Share Image
Works of Art can only be produc'd in Perfection where the Man is either in Affluence or is Above the Care of… — William Blake Copy Share Image
The Stolen and Perverted Writings of Homer & Ovid, of Plato & Cicero, which all men ought to contemn, are set up… — William Blake Copy Share Image
Poetry, Painting & Music, the three Powers in man of conversing with Paradise, which the flood did not sweep away. — William Blake Copy Share Image
If you would help another man, you must do so in minute particulars. — William Blake Copy Share Image
I rest not from my great task! | To open the Eternal Worlds, | to open the immortal Eyes of Man |… — William Blake Copy Share Image
When a Man has Married a WifeHe finds out whetherHer Knees & elbows are onlyglued together. — William Blake Copy Share Image
Poetry fettered, fetters the human race. Nations are destroyed or flourish in proportion as their poetry, painting, and music are destroyed or flourish. — William Blake Copy Share Image
Kill not the moth nor butterfly, For the Last Judgement draweth nigh. — William Blake Copy Share Image
The world of imagination is the world of eternity. It is the divine bosom into which we shall all go after death of the… — William Blake Copy Share Image
Imagination is the real and eternal world of which this vegetable universe is but a faint shadow. — William Blake Copy Share Image
Time is the mercy of Eternity; without Time's swiftness Which is the swiftest of all things, all were eternal torment. — William Blake Copy Share Image
The difference between a bad artist and a good one is: the bad artist seems to copy a great deal; the good one really… — William Blake Copy Share Image
Cruelty has a human heart, and jealousy a human face. Terror, the human form divine, And secrecy, the human dress. — William Blake Copy Share Image
Those who restrain desire, do so because theirs is weak enough to be restrained; and the restrainer or reason usurps its place & governs… — William Blake Copy Share Image
