All William Blake Quotes
- The apple tree never asks the beech how he shall grow, nor the lion, the horse, how he shall take his prey. Apple
- Improvement makes strait roads, but the crooked roads without Improvement, are roads of Genius. Crooked
- But when he has done this, let him not say that he knows better than his master, for he only holds a candle in sunshine. Better
- My mother groaned, my father wept, into the dangerous world I leapt. Birth
- Sweet babe, in thy face Soft desires I can trace, Secret joys and secret smiles, Little pretty infant wiles. Babe
- I will not cease from mental fight Nor shall my sword sleep in my hand. Cease
- Everything to be imagined is an image of truth. Funny
- Sooner strangle an infant in its cradle than nurse unacted desires. Cradle
- The eagle never lost so much time as when he submitted to learn of the crow Crow
- The imagination is not a state: it is the human existence itself. Existence
- And is he honest who resists his genius or conscience only for the sake of present ease or gratification Conscience
- May God us keep From Single vision and Newton's sleep. From
- For I dance And drink and sing, Till some blind hand Shall brush my wing. If thought is life And strength and breath And the… Blind
- I myself do nothing. The Holy Spirit accomplishes all through me. Accomplish
- But to go to school in a summer morn, O! It drives all joy away; Under a cruel eye outworn, The little ones spend the… All
- thus men forgot that all deities reside in the human breast. All
- The crow wished everything was black, the Owl, that everything was white. Animal
- Mercy is the golden chain by which society is bound together. Bound
- 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… Baby
- 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,… Belief