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William Blake Quotes

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To see a world in a grain of sand And a heaven in a wild flower, Hold infinity in the palm of your hand, And eternity in an hour.

To see a world in a grain of sand And a heaven in a wild flower, Hold infinity in the palm of your hand, And eternity in an hour.

Inspirational, Happiness, Peace

'Auguries of Innocence' (c.1803) l. 1

In the universe, there are things that are known, and things that are unknown, and in between, there are doors.

Inspirational, Life, Adventure

We are not meant to resolve all contradictions but to live with them and rise above them.

Rise Above, Contradiction, Resolve

"Thoughts in Solitude". Book by Thomas Merton, 1958.

If the doors of perception were cleansed everything would appear to man as it is, infinite.

Inspirational, Life, Spiritual

The Marriage of Heaven and Hell "A Memorable Fancy" plate 14 (1790 - 1793). Inspired the title of Aldous Huxley's 1954 book about drug experimentation, The Doors of Perception, which in turn inspired the name of the 1960s rock group The Doors.

As we are, so we see.

Belief

"As a Man Is, So He Sees" by David Berreby, bigthink.com. 2017.

Joy and woe are woven fine, A clothing for the soul divine. Under every grief and pine Runs a joy with silken twine.

Inspirational, Life, Running

William Blake (1868). “Songs of Innocence and of Experience, Showing the Two Contrary States of the Human Soul”, p.98

The person who does not believe in miracles surely makes it certain that he or she will never take part in one.

Believe, Miracle, Doe

Make your own rules or be a slave to another man's.

Men, Slave, Be A Slave

What is now proved was once only imagined.

Positive, Spiritual, Positivity

William Blake, David Fuller (2000). “William Blake: Selected Poetry and Prose”, p.132, Pearson Education

The imagination is not a state: it is the human existence itself.

Imagination, States, Existence

William Blake (2008). “The Complete Poetry and Prose of William Blake”, p.132, Univ of California Press

Love is weak when there is more doubt than there is trust, but love is most strong when you learn to trust even with all the doubts. If a thing loves, it is infinite.

Strong, Love Is, Doubt

The man who never alters his opinions is like standing water, and breeds reptiles of the mind.

Change, Wisdom, Men

William Blake, “The Marriage Of Heaven And Hell”

To some people a tree is something so incredibly beautiful that it brings tears to the eyes. To others it is just a green thing that stands in the way.

Beautiful, Attitude, Eye

Enlightenment means taking full responsibility for your life.

Mean, Responsibility, Enlightenment

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

Wisdom, Men, Doors

A truth that's told with bad intent beats all the lies you can invent.

Inspirational, Funny, Fake People

'Auguries of Innocence' (c.1803) l. 53

You become what you behold.

Inspiration, Recovery, Addiction

I see through my eyes, not with them.

Eye, Through My Eyes

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.

Trust, Courage, Truth

Do what you will this life's a fiction, And is made up of contradiction.

History, Fiction, World

"The Selected Poems of William Blake".

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

Art, Business, Creativity

'Jerusalem' (1815) 'Chapter 1' (plate 10, l. 20)

He who kisses joy as it flies by will live in eternity's sunrise.

Kissing, Joy, Sunrise

The world of imagination is the world of eternity. It is the divine bosom into which we shall all go after the death of the vegetated [i.e. mortal] body. This world of imagination is infinite and eternal, whereas the world of generation is finite and temporal. There exist in that eternal world the eternal realities of everything which we see reflected in this vegetable glass of nature.

Reality, Glasses, Vegetables

In your own bosom you bear your heaven and earth, And all you behold, though it appears without, It is within, in your imagination, Of which this world of mortality is but a shadow.

Imagination, Heaven, Shadow

William Blake, David Fuller (2008). “William Blake: Selected Poetry and Prose”, Longman Publishing Group

There is no mistake so great as the mistake of not going on.

War, Mistake

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