Poet · English · 1757 – 1827 · 80 quotes
No bird soars too high if he soars with his own wings.
William Blake
Poet · English · 1757 – 1827
Active Evil is better than Passive Good.
He who desires, but acts not, breeds pestilence.
You cannot have Liberty in this world without what you call Moral Virtue, and you cannot have Moral Virtue without the slavery of that half of the human race who hate what you call Moral Virtue.
What is now proved was once only imagined.
I have no name: I am but two days old. What shall I call thee? I happy am, Joy is my name. Sweet joy befall thee!
I was angry with my friend: I told my wrath, my wrath did end. I was angry with my foe: I told it not, my wrath did grow.
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.
What is a wife and what is a harlot? What is a church and what is a theatre? are they two and not one? Can they exist separate? Are not religion and politics the same thing? Brotherhood is religion. O demonstrations of reason dividing families in cruelty and pride!
Want of money and the distress of a thief can never be alleged as the cause of his thieving, for many honest people endure greater hardships with fortitude. We must therefore seek the cause elsewhere than in want of money, for that is the miser's passion, not the thief s.
Opposition is true friendship.
Exuberance is beauty.
If a thing loves, it is infinite.
To generalize is to be an idiot.
Every harlot was a virgin once.
The eye altering, alters all.
Lives in eternity's sun rise.
One thought fills immensity.
I must create a system or be enslaved by another mans; I will not reason and compare: my business is to create.
