William Blake

William Blake

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William Blake is an English poet and artist whose words have traveled far beyond their original audience. Their thinking spans from Men to Art, revealing a mind that refused to stay in one lane. We feature 58 quotes from William Blake spanning Men, Art, Wisdom, Science, and Religion, making them one of the most prolific voices in our archive. Consider this gem from William Blake: "Travelers repose and dream among my leaves."

“Art can never exist without naked beauty displayed.”

— William Blake

Art

All Quotes by William Blake

“Eternity is in love with the productions of time.”

— William Blake

Time

“Great things are done when men and mountains meet.”

— William Blake

Great

“Where mercy, love, and pity dwell, there God is dwelling too.”

— William Blake

God

“Art can never exist without naked beauty displayed.”

— William Blake

Art

“Travelers repose and dream among my leaves.”

— William Blake

Travel

“What is grand is necessarily obscure to weak men. That which can be made explicit to the idiot is not worth my care.”

— William Blake

Men

“He who binds to himself a joy Does the winged life destroy But he who kisses the joy as it flies Lives in eternity's sun rise.”

— William Blake

Life

“That the Jews assumed a right exclusively to the benefits of God will be a lasting witness against them and the same will it be against Christians.”

— William Blake

God

“Excessive sorrow laughs. Excessive joy weeps.”

— William Blake

Sympathy

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

— William Blake

Business

“The hours of folly are measured by the clock but of wisdom, no clock can measure.”

— William Blake

Wisdom

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

— William Blake

Sad

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

— William Blake

Imagination

“The thankful receiver bears a plentiful harvest.”

— William Blake

Thankful

“The tree which moves some to tears of joy is in the eyes of others only a green thing that stands in the way. Some see nature all ridicule and deformity... and some scarce see nature at all. But to the eyes of the man of imagination, nature is imagination itself.”

— William Blake

Imagination

“The true method of knowledge is experiment.”

— William Blake

Knowledge

“Think in the morning. Act in the noon. Eat in the evening. Sleep in the night.”

— William Blake

Morning

“The weak in courage is strong in cunning.”

— William Blake

Courage

“It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend.”

— William Blake

Forgiveness

“When I tell the truth, it is not for the sake of convincing those who do not know it, but for the sake of defending those that do.”

— William Blake

Truth