"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."
— William Blake

"A truth that's told with bad intent
Beats all the lies you can invent."
— William Blake

"It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend."
— William Blake

"If the Doors of Perception were cleansed everything would appear to man as it truly is - infinite."
— William Blake

"For all eternity, I forgive you and you forgive me."
— William Blake

"The road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom."
— William Blake

"The man who never alters his opinion is like standing water, and breeds reptiles of the mind."
— William Blake

"If a thing loves, it is infinite."
— William Blake

"Tyger! Tyger! burning bright
In the forests of the night,
What immortal hand or eye
Could frame thy fearful symmetry?"
— William Blake

"The glory of Christianity is to conquer by forgiveness."
— William Blake

"Truth can never be told so as to be understood and not be believed."
— William Blake

"I must create a system, or be enslaved by another man's."
— William Blake

"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."
— William Blake

"A man can't soar too high, when he flies with his own wings."
— William Blake

"Eternity is in love with the productions of time."
— William Blake (The Marriage of Heaven and Hell)

"Without contraries is no progression. Attraction and repulsion, reason and energy, love and hate, are necessary to human existence."
— William Blake

"The imagination is not a state: it is the human existence itself."
— William Blake

"The most sublime act is to set another before you."
— William Blake

"He who kisses joy as it flies by will live in eternity's sunrise."
— William Blake

"Those who restrain desire do so because theirs is weak enough to be restrained."
— William Blake

"What is now proved was once only imagined."
— William Blake

"Love seeketh not itself to please, nor for itself hath any care, but for another gives its ease, and builds a Heaven in Hell's despair."
— William Blake (Songs of Innocence and Songs of Experience)

"He whose face gives no light, shall never become a star."
— William Blake

"Improvement makes strait roads, but the crooked roads without Improvement, are roads of Genius."
— William Blake (The Marriage of Heaven and Hell: A Facsimile in Full Color)

"To generalize is to be an idiot."
— William Blake

"Man was made for joy and woe
Then when this we rightly know
Through the world we safely go.
Joy and woe are woven fine
A clothing for the soul to bind."
— William Blake

""And we are put on this earth a little space that we might learn to bear the beams of love" "
— William Blake

"The tigers of wrath are wiser than the horses of instruction."
— William Blake (Songs of Innocence And of Experience)

"THE POISON TREE

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 I water'd it in fears,
Night & morning with my tears;
And I sunned it with my smiles
And with soft deceitful wiles.

And it grew both day and night,
Till it bore an apple bright;
And my foe beheld it shine,
And he knew that it was mine,

And into my garden stole
When the night had veil'd the pole:
In the morning glad I see
My foe outstretch'd beneath the tree."
— William Blake

"For every thing that lives is Holy."
— William Blake (The Marriage of Heaven and Hell: A Facsimile in Full Color)

"No bird soars too high, if he soars with his own wings."
— William Blake (The Marriage of Heaven and Hell: A Facsimile in Full Color)

"Mercy is the golden chain by which society is bound together."
— William Blake

"What is now proved was once only imagined."
— William Blake

"I will not reason and compare my business is to create."
— William Blake

"My mother groaned, my father wept,
into the dangerous world I leapt."
— William Blake

"Everything to be imagined is an image of truth."
— William Blake

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

"...
For I dance
And drink and sing,
Till some blind hand Shall brush my wing.

If thought is life
And strength and breath
And the want
Of thought is death

Then am I
A happy fly
If I live
Or if I die"
— William Blake

"The crow wished everything was black, the Owl, that everything was white."
— William Blake

"He who binds to himself a joy
Does the winged life destroy;
But he who kisses the joy as it files
Lives in eternity's sun rise.
"
— William Blake

"Dip him in the river who loves water."
— William Blake (The Marriage of Heaven and Hell: A Facsimile in Full Color)

"Can I see another's woe and not be in sorrow, too? Can I see another's grief and not seek for kind relief?"
— William Blake

"Improvement makes straight roads,
but the crooked roads
without Improvement, are roads of Genius."
— William Blake

"I will not cease from mental fight
Nor shall my sword sleep in my hand."
— William Blake

"To see a world in a grain of sand,
And a heaven in a wild flower,
Hold infinity in the palm of your hand,
An eternity in an hour."
— William Blake

"Energy is eternal delight."
— William Blake

"Sooner strangle an infant in its cradle than nurse unacted desires."
— William Blake

"The Prophets Isaiah and Ezekiel dined with me, and I asked them how they dared so roundly to assert, that God spoke to them; and whether they did not think at the time, that they would be misunderstood, & so be the cause of imposition.

Isaiah answer'd, I saw no God, nor heard any, in a finite organical perception; but my senses discover'd the infinite in every thing, and as I was then persuaded, & remain confirm'd; that the voice of honest indignation is the voice of God, I cared not for consequences but wrote."
— William Blake (The Marriage of Heaven and Hell: A Facsimile in Full Color)

"Exuberance is beauty. "
— William Blake

"Both read the Bible day and night,
But thou read'st black where I read white."
— William Blake