William Blake
Innate ideas are in every man, born with him; they are truly himself. The man who says that we have no innate ideas must be a fool and knave, having no conscience or innate science.Collection: Men
He who loves his enemies betrays his friends; this surely is not what Jesus meant.Collection: Jesus
The modest Rose puts forth a thorn,The humble sheep a threat'ning horn:While the Lily white shall in love delight,Nor a thorn nor a threat stain her beauty bright.Collection: Humble
Abstinence sows sand all over The ruddy limbs and flaming hair, But desire gratified Plants fruits of life and beauty there.Collection: Life
Tools were made and born were hands, Every farmer understands.Collection: Hands
Enthusiastic Admiration is the first Principle of Knowledge and its last.Collection: Firsts
I am really sorry to see my countrymen trouble themselves about politics. If men were wise, the most arbitrary princes could not hurt them. If they are not wise, the freest government is compelled to be a tyranny. Princes appear to me to be fools. Houses of Commons and Houses of Lords appear to me to be fools; they seem to me to be something else besides human life.Collection: Wise
What seems to be, is, to those to whom it seems to be, and is productive of the most dreadful consequences to those to whom it seems to be, even of torments, despair, eternal death.Collection: Death
Jesus & his apostles & disciples were all artistsCollection: Jesus
Holy, holy, holy is the Lord God Almighty !Collection: Lord
The ignorant Insults of Individuals will not hinder me from doing my duty to my ArtCollection: Art
Energy is the only life, and is from the body; and reason is the bound or outward circumference of energy. Energy is eternal delight.Collection: Energy
I am under the direction of messengers from Heaven daily and nightly.Collection: Heaven
Christianity is art and not money. Money is its curse.Collection: Art
There can be no Good Will. Will is always Evil; it is persecution to others or selfishness.Collection: Evil
To create a little flower is the labour of ages.Collection: Happiness
Silent as despairing love, and strong as jealousy.Collection: Strong
When the stars threw down their spears, and watered heaven with their tears, did he smile his work to see? Did he who made the Lamb make thee?Collection: Stars
Nature in darkness groans and men are bound to sullen contemplation in the night: restless they turn on beds of sorrow; in their inmost brain feeling the crushing wheels, they rise, they write the bitter words of stern philosophy and knead the bread of knowledge with tears and groans.Collection: Crush
Oh! why was I born with a different face? why was I not born like the rest of my race? when I look,each one starts! when I speak, I offend; then Im silent & passive & lose every friend. Then my verse I dishonour, my pictures despise, my person degrade & my temper chastise; and the pen is my terror, the pencil my shame; all my talents I bury, and dead is my fame. Im either too low or too highly prized; when elate I m envy'd, when meek Im despis'dCollection: Race
You throw the sand against the wind and the wind blows it back again.Collection: Blow
Truth can never be told so as to be understood and not be believed.Collection: Truth
Do what you will this life's a fiction, And is made up of contradiction.Collection: History
Why stand we here trembling around, calling on God for help, and not ourselves, in whom God dwells?Collection: God
The Woman that does not love your Frowns Will never embrace your smiles.Collection: Love You
Better to shun the bait than struggle in the snare.Collection: Struggle
You've always had the power right there in your shoes, you just had to learn it for yourself.Collection: Learning
The busy bee has no time for sorrow.Collection: Time
Every man who is not an artist is a traitor to his own nature.Collection: Artist
I see the Past, Present & Future existing all at once Before me.Collection: Past
The world of imagination is the world of eternity.Collection: Imagination
I see through my eyes, not with them.Collection: Eye
He who kisses joy as it flies by will live in eternity's sunrise.Collection: Kissing
A good local pub has much in common with a church, except that a pub is warmer, and there's more conversation.Collection: Beer
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.Collection: Reality
Some are born to sweet delight, Some are born to endless night.Collection: Sweet
There is no mistake so great as the mistake of not going on.Collection: War
Innocence dwells with Wisdom, but never with ignorance.Collection: Ignorance
If you would help another man, you must do so in minute particulars.Collection: Men
A robin redbreast in a cage Puts all heaven in a rage.Collection: Animal
Art degraded, Imagination denied.Collection: Art
Joy and woe are woven fine.Collection: Joy
Naught can deform the human race Like to the armor's iron brace.Collection: Men