William Blake
The countless gold of a merry heart, The rubies and pearls of a loving eye, The indolent never can bring to the mart, Nor the secret hoard up in his treasury.Collection: Heart
It is the greatest of crimes to depress true art and science.Collection: Depressing
'Come hither, my boy, tell me what thou seest there?' 'A fool tangled in a religious snare.'Collection: Religious
Jerusalem (1804) And did those feet in ancient time Walk upon England's mountains green And was the holy lamb of God On England's pleasant pastures seen And did the countenance divine Shine forth upon our clouded hills And was Jerusalem builded here Among those dark Satanic mills Bring me my bow of burning gold Bring me my arrows of desire Bring me my spears o'clouds unfold Bring me my chariot of fire I will not cease from mental fight Nor shall my sword sleep in my hand 'Til we have built Jerusalem In England's green and pleasant landCollection: Sleep
Thinking as I do that the Creator of this world is a very cruel being, and being a worshipper of Christ, I cannot help saying: ''the Son, O how unlike the Father!'' First God Almighty comes with a thump on the head. Then Jesus Christ comes with a balm to heal it.Collection: Jesus
Joys impregnate. Sorrows bring forth.Collection: Joy
Poetry fettered fetters the human race.Collection: Race
I rest not from my great task! | To open the Eternal Worlds, | to open the immortal Eyes of Man | Inwards into the Worlds of Thought; | Into eternity, ever expanding | In the Bosom of God, | The Human ImaginationCollection: Eye
To generalize is to be an idiot. To particularize is the alone distinction of merit. General knowledge are those knowledge that idiots possess.Collection: Merit
He loves to sit and hear me sing, Then, laughing, sports and plays with me; Then stretches out my golden wing, And mocks my loss of liberty.Collection: Love
When the sun rises, do you not see a round disc of fire somewhat like a guinea? O no, no, I see an innumerable company of the heavenly host crying Holy, Holy, Holy is the Lord God Almighty.Collection: Fire
Every Night and every Morn Some to Misery are born. Every Morn and every Night Some are born to Sweet Delight, Some are born to Endless Night.Collection: Baby
Little fly, thy summer's play My thoughtless hand has brushed away. Am not I a fly like thee? Or art not thou a man like me? For I dance and drink and sing, Till some blind hand shall brush my wing!Collection: Summer
The Old and New Testaments are the Great Code of Art.Collection: Art
My mother bore me in the southern wild, And I am black, but O! my soul is white; White as an angel is the English child, But I am black as if bereaved of light.Collection: Mother
Every tear from every eyeBecomes a babe in eternity.Collection: Tears
The Whole Business of Man is The Arts, & All Things Common.Collection: Art
Ages are All Equal. / But Genius is Always Above The Age.Collection: Age
Demonstration, similitude & harmony are objects of reasoning. Invention, identity & melody are objects of intuition.Collection: Intuition
O white-robed Angel, guide my timorous hand to write as on a lofty rock with iron pen the words of truth, that all who pass may read.Collection: Angel
Everything is beautiful in its own way. Exuberance is beauty.Collection: Beautiful
Pity would be no more, If we did not make somebody poor. Mercy no more could be, If all were happy as we.Collection: Would Be
Nature has no outline. Imagination has.Collection: Imagination
But when he has done this, let him not say that he knows better than his master, for he only holds a candle in sunshine.Collection: Sunshine
If Christianity was morality, Socrates would be the Saviour.Collection: Would Be
Energy is eternal delight.Collection: Philosophy
The pride of the peacock is the glory of God.Collection: Pride
How can the bird that is born for joy Sit in a cage and sing? How can a child, when fears annoy, But droop his tender wing, And forget his youthful spring?Collection: Children
The lamb misused breeds public strife And yet forgives the butcher's knife.Collection: Knives
Man was made for joy and woe, and when this we rightly know through the world we safely go. Joy and woe are woven fine, a clothing for the soul to bind.Collection: Men
None but blockheads copy each other.Collection: Art
Come live, and be merry, and join with me, To sing the sweet chorus of 'Ha ha he!Collection: Sweet
Colouring does not depend on where the colours are put, but on where the lights and darks are put, and all depends on form and outline, on where that is put.Collection: Light
Work up imagination to the state of vision.Collection: Imagination
Poetry, Painting & Music, the three Powers in man of conversing with Paradise, which the flood did not sweep away.Collection: Men
There is a smile of love, And there is a smile of deceit, And there is a smile of smiles In which these two smiles meet.Collection: Two
Without Unceasing Practice nothing can be done. Practice is Art. If you leave off you are lost.Collection: Art
How can a bird that is born for joy Sit in a cage and sing?Collection: Bird
We are here to learn to endure the beams of loveCollection: Beam
I myself do nothing. The Holy Spirit accomplishes all through me.Collection: Spiritual
Each man is haunted until his humanity awakens.Collection: Men
Mysteries are not to be solved. They eye goes blind when it only wants to see why.Collection: Eye
Gratitude, in itself, is heaven.Collection: Gratitude
He who sees the Infinite in all things sees God.Collection: Religion
And we are put on earth a little space, That we may learn to bear the beams of love.Collection: Love