William Blake Quotes

"The pride of the peacock is the glory of God."

"Can I see another's woe, and not be in sorrow, too? Can I see another's grief, and not seek for kind relief?"

"When the stars threw down their spears, / And watered heaven with their tears, / Did he smile his work to see? / Did he who made the Lamb make thee?"

"Puts all Heaven in a Rage."

"Men are admitted into Heaven not because they have curbed and governed their passions or have no passions, but because they have cultivated their understandings. The treasures of Heaven are not negations of passion, but realities of intellect, from which all the passions emanate uncurbed in their eternal glory. The fool shall not enter into Heaven let him be ever so holy."

"When the doors of perception are cleansed, man will see things as they truly are, infinite."

"He's a Blockhead who wants a proof of what he Can't Percieve And he's a Fool who tries to make such a Blockhead believe."

"Mutual Forgiveness of each vice, / Such are the Gates of Paradise."

"Listen to the fools reproach! it is a kingly title!"

"Cruelty has a Human Heart, And jealousy a Human Face; Terror the Human Form Divine, And secrecy the Human Dress. The Human Dress is forged Iron, The Human Form a Fiery Forge, The Human Face a Furnace seal d, The Human Heart its hungry gorge."

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

"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."

"Joys impregnate. Sorrows bring forth."

"The hum of multitudes was there, but multitudes of lambs,Thousands of little boys and girls raising their innocent hands."

"Man has no Body distinct from his Soul; for that called Body is a portion of Soul discerned by the five Senses, the chief inlets of Soul in this age."

"This life's dim windows of the soulDistorts the heavens from pole to poleAnd leads you to believe a lieWhen you see with, not through, the eye."

"Great things are done when men and mountains meet"

"Great things are done when men and mountains meet. This is not done by jostling in the street."

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

"Those who restrain their desires, do so because theirs is weak enough to be restrained."