Female form Quote by William Blake

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

Where any view of money exists, art cannot be carried on.

— William Blake

God only acts and is, in existing beings or men.

— William Blake

Kill not the moth nor butterfly, For the Last Judgement draweth nigh.

— William Blake

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

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

— William Blake

Painters are noted for being dissipated and wild.

— William Blake

Time is the mercy of Eternity; without Time's swiftness Which is the swiftest of all things, all were eternal torment.

— William Blake

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

Cruelty has a human heart, and jealousy a human face. Terror, the human form divine, And secrecy, the human dress.

— William Blake

A dead body revenges not injuries.

— William Blake

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