William Blake

“Some are born to sweet delight, Some are born to endless night.”

“Knowledge is Life with wings”

“Cruelty has a human heart,And Jealousy a human face;Terror the human form divine,And Secresy the human dress.The human dress is forged iron,The human form a fiery forge,The human face a furnace sealed,The human heart its hungry gorge.- "A DIVINE IMAGE”

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

“In seed time learn, in harvest teach, in winter enjoy.”

“And I watered it in fears,Night and morning with my tears;And I sunned it with smiles,And with soft deceitful wiles.”

“The weak in courage is strong in cunning.”

“You never know what is enough unless you know what is more than enough.”

“A fool sees not the same tree that a wise man sees.”

“If the Sun and Moon should ever doubt, they'd immediately go out.”

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

“Excessive sorrow laughs. Excessive joy weeps.”

“Fiery the Angels rose, & as they rose deep thunder roll’d Around their shores, indignant burning with the fires of Orc.”

“The emmet's inch and eagle's mileMake lame philosophy to smile.He who doubts from what he seesWill ne'er believe, do what you please.- "Auguries of Innocence”

“He who mocks the infant's faithShall be mock'd in age and death.He who shall teach the child to doubtThe rotting grave shall ne'er get out.He who respects the infant's faithTriumphs over hell and death.The child's toys and the old man's reasonsAre the fruits of the two seasons.- "Auguries of Innocence”

“A Robin Redbreast in a CagePuts all Heaven in a Rage.A dove house fill’d with doves and pigeonsShudders Hell thro’ all its regions.A Dog starv’d at his Master’s GatePredicts the ruin of the State.A Horse misus’d upon the RoadCalls to Heaven for Human blood.Each outcry of the hunted HareA fiber from the Brain does tear.”

“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 lamb misused breeds public strifeAnd yet forgives the butcher's knife.”

“I was walking among the fires of Hell, delighted with the enjoyments of Genius; which to Angels look like torment and insanity.”

“London I wander thro' each charter'd street, Near where the charter'd Thames does flow. And mark in every face I meet Marks of weakness, marks of woe. In every cry of every Man, In every Infants cry of fear, In every voice: in every ban, The mind-forg'd manacles I hear How the Chimney-sweepers cry Every blackning Church appalls, And the hapless Soldiers sigh Runs in blood down Palace walls But most thro' midnight streets I hear How the youthful Harlots curse Blasts the new-born Infants tear And blights with plagues the Marriage hearse.”

“Never seek to tell thy love; Love that never told can be. For the gentle wind does move silently.. invisibly.”

“Better to shun the bait than struggle in the snare.”

“Energy is eternal delight.”

“A dead body revenges not injuries.”

“Then cherish pity, lest you drive an angel from your door.”

“I give you the end of a golden string,Only wind it into a ball,It will lead you in at Heaven's gateBuilt in Jerusalem's wall.”

“Prisons are built with stones of Law, Brothels with bricks of Religion”

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

“The prince's robes and beggar's rags,Are toadstools on the miser's bags.A truth that's told with bad intent,Beats all the lies you can invent”

“I will not reason and compare my business is to create.”

“To generalize is to be an idiot.”

“And we are put on this earth a little space that we might learn to bear the beams of love.”

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

“To cast aside from Poetry, all that is not Inspiration”

“When nations grow old the Arts grow coldAnd commerce settles on every tree”

“When the stars threw down their spearsAnd watered heaven with their tears:Did he smile his work to see?Did he who made the Lamb make thee?- The Tyger”

“And Priests in black gowns, were walking their rounds, And binding with briars, my joys & desires.”

“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.”

“Opposition is true Friendship.”

“The morning comes, the night decays, the watchmen leave their stations.”

“He who desires, but acts not, breeds pestilence.”

“For Mercy has a human heartPity, a human face:And Love, the human form divine,And Peace, the human dress.”

“A good local pub has much in common with a church, except that a pub is warmer, and there's more conversation. ”

“The roaring of lions, the howling of wolves, the raging of the stormy sea, and the destructive sword, are portions of eternity, too great for the eye of man.”

“Prudence is a rich, ugly old maid courted by incapacity.”

“Love to faults is always blind, always is to joy inclined. Lawless, winged, and unconfined, and breaks all chains from every mind.”

“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.”

“Exuberance is beauty.”

“Down the winding cavern we groped our tedious way, till a void boundless as the nether sky appeared beneath us, and we held by the roots of trees and hung over this immensity; but I said: if you please we will commit ourselves to this void and see whether providence is here also.”

“The cut worm forgives the plow.”