William Blake: Trending quotes

“The crow wished everything was black, the Owl, that everything was white.”

“Knowledge is Life with wings”

“How can a bird that is born for joy
Sit in a cage and sing?”

“The tygers of wrath are wiser than the horses of instruction.”

“Improvement makes straight roads; but the crooked roads without improvement are roads of genius.”

“Great things are done when men and mountains meet;
This is not done by jostling in the street.”

“Think in the morning. Act in the noon. Eat in the evening. Sleep in the night.”

“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.”

“And throughout all eternity
I forgive you, you forgive me.”

“The moon like a flower
In heaven's high bower,
With silent delight,
Sits and smiles on the night.”

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

“He who kisses joy as it flies by will live in eternity's sunrise.”

“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.”

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

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

“The imagination is not a state: it is the human existence itself.”

“When I tell any Truth it is not for the sake of Convincing those who do not know it but for the sake of defending those who Do”

“The hours of folly are measur'd by the clock, but of wisdom no clock can measure.”

“I see the Four-fold Man.
The Humanity in deadly sleep,
And its fallen Emanation. The Spectre & its cruel Shadow.
I see the Past, Present & Future, existing all at once
Before me; O Divine Spirit sustain me on thy wings!”