William Blake
Every harlot was a virgin once.
Lives in eternity's sun rise.
The difference between a bad artist and a good one is: the bad artist seems to copy a great deal; the good one really does.
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.
Fun I love, but too much fun is of all things the most loathsome. Mirth is better than fun, and happiness is better than mirth.
Christ's crucifix shall be made an excuse for executing criminals.
The man who never in his mind and thoughts travel'd to heaven is no artist.
The fool who persists in his folly will become wise.
When the green woods laugh with the voice of joy, And the dimpling stream runs laughing by; When the air does laugh with our merry wit, And the green hill laughs with the noise of it.
A fool sees not the same tree that a wise man sees.
Both read the Bible day and night, but thou read black where I read white.
For everything that lives is holy, life delights in life.
The man who never alters his opinions is like standing water, and breeds reptiles of the mind.
Without contraries is no progression. Attraction and repulsion, reason and energy, love and hate, are necessary to human existence.
Energy is an eternal delight, and he who desires, but acts not, breeds pestilence.
You never know what is enough unless you know what is more than enough.
If a thing loves, it is infinite.
Always be ready to speak your mind, and a base man will avoid you.
The tigers of wrath are wiser than the horses of instruction.
Prudence is a rich, ugly, old maid courted by incapacity.
The eye altering, alters all.
Those who restrain their desires, do so because theirs is weak enough to be restrained.
When a sinister person means to be your enemy, they always start by trying to become your friend.
To generalize is to be an idiot.
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.
Do what you will, this world's a fiction and is made up of contradiction.
Active Evil is better than Passive Good.
If the fool would persist in his folly he would become wise.
Love to faults is always blind, always is to joy inclined. Lawless, winged, and unconfined, and breaks all chains from every mind.
In the universe, there are things that are known, and things that are unknown, and in between, there are doors.Collection: Inspirational
We are not meant to resolve all contradictions but to live with them and rise above them.Collection: Rise Above
The person who does not believe in miracles surely makes it certain that he or she will never take part in one.Collection: Believe
As we are, so we see.Collection: Belief
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.Collection: Beautiful
Make your own rules or be a slave to another man's.Collection: Men
The imagination is not a state: it is the human existence itself.Collection: Imagination
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.Collection: Strong
Enlightenment means taking full responsibility for your life.Collection: Mean
You become what you behold.Collection: Inspiration
To the eyes of the man of imagination, nature is imagination itself.Collection: Nature
Mans desires are limited by his perceptions; none can desire what he has not perceived.Collection: Perception
Celebrate your existence!Collection: Shining
Mere enthusiasm is the all in all.Collection: Enthusiasm
The voice of honest indignation is the voice of God.Collection: Voice
How do you know but ev’ry Bird that cuts the airy way, Is an immense world of delight, clos’d by your senses five?Collection: Cutting
I cry, Love! Love! Love! happy happy Love! free as the mountain wind!Collection: Wind