"Think in the morning. Act in the noon. Eat in the evening. Sleep in the night."
William Blake
Poet, Painter
William Blake was an English poet and artist known for his visionary works, including 'Songs of Innocence and of Experience,' which explore profound themes of imagination and humanity.
- Born
- November 28, 1757
- Died
- August 12, 1827
- Quotes
- 466
- Rank
- #61
Quote collection
William Blake quotes (page 2 of 24)
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"What is now proved was once only imagined."
"To see a world in a grain of sand and a heaven in a wildflower."
"A truth that's told with bad intent beats all the lies you can invent."
"Tyger! Tyger! burning bright In the forests of the night, What immortal hand or eye Could frame thy fearful symmetry?"
"It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend."
"You never know what is enough unless you know what is more than enough."
"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."
"He who desires, but acts not, breeds pestilence."
"This life's dim windows of the soul Distorts the heavens from pole to pole And leads you to believe a lie When you see with, not through, the eye."
"A robin redbreast in a cage Puts all heaven in a rage."
"The bird a nest, the spider a web, man friendship."
"Every harlot was a virgin once."
"As a man is, so he sees."
"No bird soars too high if he soars with his own wings."
"Everything to be imagined is an image of truth."
"The imagination is not a state: it is the human existence itself."
"Does the Eagle know what is in the pit Or wilt thou go ask the Mole? Can Wisdom be put in a silver rod, Or Love in a golden bowl?"
"To the eyes of the man of imagination, nature is imagination itself."
"I am in you and you in me, mutual in divine love."