William Blake Quotes

Without Contraries is no progression. Attraction and Repulsion, Reason and Energy, Love and Hate, are necessary to Human existence.

What is now proved was once only imagined.

The busy bee has no time for sorrow.

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

Where Mercy, Love, and Pity dwell, there God is dwelling too.

When the voices of children are heard on the green, and laughing is heard on the hill, my heart is at rest within my breast, and everything else is still.

What is the price of Experience? do men buy it for a song? Or wisdom for a dance in the street? No, it is bought with the price Of all that a man hath, his house, his wife, his children.

What is a wife, and what is a harlot? What is a church, and what Is a theatre? Are they two and not one? Can they exist separate? Are not religion and politics the same thing? Brotherhood is Religion, O Demonstrations of Reason, dividing families in cruelty and pride!

Tyger Tyger, burning bright, in the forests of the night: What immortal hand or eye, could frame thy fearful symmetry?

Truth can never be told so as to be understood and not be believed.

To create a little flower is the labour of ages.

Those who restrain desire, do so because theirs is weak enough to be restrained.