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William Blake Quotes

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William Blake is celebrated for his visionary poetry and artwork, which explore the depths of imagination, spirituality, and human nature. His writings blend profound philosophical insight with vivid symbolism, challenging readers to reflect on morality, creativity, and the soul. The following quotes capture his timeless wisdom, artistic brilliance, and the enduring power of his unique vision.

He who binds to himself a joy
Does the winged life destroy;
But he who kisses the joy as it flies
Lives in eternity's sun rise.
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A man can't soar too high, when he flies with his own wings.
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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.
From The Marriage of Heaven and Hell
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If the doors of perception were cleansed everything would appear to man as it is, infinite.
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Better to shun the bait than struggle in the snare.
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A truth that's told with bad intent
Beats all the lies you can invent.
From Auguries of Innocence
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What is now proved was once only imagined.
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The Garden of Love

I went to the Garden of Love,
And saw what I never had seen:
A Chapel was built in the midst,
Where I used to play on the green.

And the gates of this Chapel were shut,
And 'Thou shalt not' writ over the door;
So I turn'd to the Garden of Love,
That so many sweet flowers bore.

And I saw it was filled with graves,
And tomb-stones where flowers should be:
And Priests in black gowns, were walking their rounds,
And binding with briars, my joys & desires.
From Songs of Innocence and of Experience
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The Devil answer'd: bray a fool in a morter with wheat, yet shall not his folly be beaten out of him; if Jesus Christ is the greatest man, you ought to love him in the greatest degree; now hear how he has given his sanction to the law of ten commandments: did he not mock at the sabbath, and so mock the sabbaths God? murder those who were murder'd because of him? turn away the law from the woman taken in adultery? steal the labor of others to support him? bear false witness when he omitted making a defense before Pilate? covet when he pray'd for his disciples, and when he bid them shake off the dust of their feet against such as refused to lodge them? I tell you, no virtue can exist without breaking these ten commandments; Jesus was all virtue, and acted from impulse, not from rules.
From The Marriage of Heaven and Hell
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No bird soars too high if he soars with his own wings.
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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.
From Auguries of Innocence
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And Priests in black gowns, were walking their rounds,
And binding with briars, my joys & desires.
From Songs of Innocence and of Experience
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The glory of Christianity is to conquer by forgiveness.
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He who binds to himself a joy
Does the winged life destroy;
But he who kisses the joy as it flies
Lives in eternity's sun rise.
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A man can't soar too high, when he flies with his own wings.
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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.
From The Marriage of Heaven and Hell
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If the doors of perception were cleansed everything would appear to man as it is, infinite.
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Better to shun the bait than struggle in the snare.
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A truth that's told with bad intent
Beats all the lies you can invent.
From Auguries of Innocence
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What is now proved was once only imagined.
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The Garden of Love

I went to the Garden of Love,
And saw what I never had seen:
A Chapel was built in the midst,
Where I used to play on the green.

And the gates of this Chapel were shut,
And 'Thou shalt not' writ over the door;
So I turn'd to the Garden of Love,
That so many sweet flowers bore.

And I saw it was filled with graves,
And tomb-stones where flowers should be:
And Priests in black gowns, were walking their rounds,
And binding with briars, my joys & desires.
From Songs of Innocence and of Experience
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The Devil answer'd: bray a fool in a morter with wheat, yet shall not his folly be beaten out of him; if Jesus Christ is the greatest man, you ought to love him in the greatest degree; now hear how he has given his sanction to the law of ten commandments: did he not mock at the sabbath, and so mock the sabbaths God? murder those who were murder'd because of him? turn away the law from the woman taken in adultery? steal the labor of others to support him? bear false witness when he omitted making a defense before Pilate? covet when he pray'd for his disciples, and when he bid them shake off the dust of their feet against such as refused to lodge them? I tell you, no virtue can exist without breaking these ten commandments; Jesus was all virtue, and acted from impulse, not from rules.
From The Marriage of Heaven and Hell
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No bird soars too high if he soars with his own wings.
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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.
From Auguries of Innocence
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And Priests in black gowns, were walking their rounds,
And binding with briars, my joys & desires.
From Songs of Innocence and of Experience
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The glory of Christianity is to conquer by forgiveness.
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He who binds to himself a joy
Does the winged life destroy;
But he who kisses the joy as it flies
Lives in eternity's sun rise.
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A man can't soar too high, when he flies with his own wings.
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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.
From The Marriage of Heaven and Hell
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If the doors of perception were cleansed everything would appear to man as it is, infinite.
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Better to shun the bait than struggle in the snare.
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A truth that's told with bad intent
Beats all the lies you can invent.
From Auguries of Innocence
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What is now proved was once only imagined.
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The Garden of Love

I went to the Garden of Love,
And saw what I never had seen:
A Chapel was built in the midst,
Where I used to play on the green.

And the gates of this Chapel were shut,
And 'Thou shalt not' writ over the door;
So I turn'd to the Garden of Love,
That so many sweet flowers bore.

And I saw it was filled with graves,
And tomb-stones where flowers should be:
And Priests in black gowns, were walking their rounds,
And binding with briars, my joys & desires.
From Songs of Innocence and of Experience
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The Devil answer'd: bray a fool in a morter with wheat, yet shall not his folly be beaten out of him; if Jesus Christ is the greatest man, you ought to love him in the greatest degree; now hear how he has given his sanction to the law of ten commandments: did he not mock at the sabbath, and so mock the sabbaths God? murder those who were murder'd because of him? turn away the law from the woman taken in adultery? steal the labor of others to support him? bear false witness when he omitted making a defense before Pilate? covet when he pray'd for his disciples, and when he bid them shake off the dust of their feet against such as refused to lodge them? I tell you, no virtue can exist without breaking these ten commandments; Jesus was all virtue, and acted from impulse, not from rules.
From The Marriage of Heaven and Hell
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No bird soars too high if he soars with his own wings.
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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.
From Auguries of Innocence
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And Priests in black gowns, were walking their rounds,
And binding with briars, my joys & desires.
From Songs of Innocence and of Experience
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The glory of Christianity is to conquer by forgiveness.
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