Quotes By William Blake

Exuberance is beauty.

The road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom.

When I tell the truth, it is not for the sake of convincing those who do not know it, but for the sake of defending those that do.

The tigers of wrath are wiser than the horses of instruction.

Art is the tree of life. Science is the tree of death.

The tree which moves some to tears of joy is in the eyes of others only a green thing that stands in the way. Some see nature all ridicule and deformity... and some scarce see nature at all. But to the eyes of the man of imagination, nature is imagination itself.

Christ's crucifix shall be made an excuse for executing criminals.

It is not because angels are holier than men or devils that makes them angels, but because they do not expect holiness from one another, but from God only.

He whose face gives no light, shall never become a star.

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

Opposition is true friendship.

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

Always be ready to speak your mind, and a base man will avoid you.

Travelers repose and dream among my leaves.

The glory of Christianity is to conquer by forgiveness.

The soul of sweet delight, can never be defiled.

Do what you will, this world's a fiction and is made up of contradiction.

Energy is an eternal delight, and he who desires, but acts not, breeds pestilence.

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

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