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Imagination is the Reality of the Dreamer
William Blake was an English poet, painter, and printmaker who is now considered a seminal figure in the history of the poetry and visual arts of the Romantic Age.
Poet, Painter, Printmaker | English
Born: 1757-11-28 in Soho, London, England
Died: August 12, 1827 in Charing Cross, London, England
Man has no Body distinct from his Soul for that called Body is a portion of Soul discerned by the five Senses, the chief inlets of Soul in this age.
William Blake
He who would do good to another must do it in Minute Particulars: general Good is the plea of the scoundrel, hypocrite, and flatterer, for Art and Science cannot exist but in minutely organized Particulars.
William Blake
Art can never exist without naked beauty displayed.
William Blake
Art is the tree of life. Science is the tree of death.
William Blake
The foundation of empire is art and science. Remove them or degrade them, and the empire is no more. Empire follows art and not vice versa as Englishmen suppose.
William Blake
Art can never exist without naked beauty displayed.
William Blake
Exuberance is beauty.
William Blake
I must create a system or be enslaved by another mans I will not reason and compare: my business is to create.
William Blake
The weak in courage is strong in cunning.
William Blake
Art is the tree of life. Science is the tree of death.
William Blake
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 the man hath, his house, his wife, his children.
William Blake
It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend.
William Blake
The glory of Christianity is to conquer by forgiveness.
William Blake
The bird a nest, the spider a web, man friendship.
William Blake
Opposition is true friendship.
William Blake
That the Jews assumed a right exclusively to the benefits of God will be a lasting witness against them and the same will it be against Christians.
William Blake
Where mercy, love, and pity dwell, there God is dwelling too.
William Blake
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.
William Blake
He who would do good to another must do it in Minute Particulars: general Good is the plea of the scoundrel, hypocrite, and flatterer, for Art and Science cannot exist but in minutely organized Particulars.
William Blake
Active Evil is better than Passive Good.
William Blake
Great things are done when men and mountains meet.
William Blake
The difference between a bad artist and a good one is: the bad artist seems to copy a great deal the good one really does.
William Blake
Fun I love, but too much fun is of all things the most loathsome. Mirth is better than fun, and happiness is better than mirth.
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
Imagination is the real and eternal world of which this vegetable universe is but a faint shadow.
William Blake
The true method of knowledge is experiment.
William Blake
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.
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
What is grand is necessarily obscure to weak men. That which can be made explicit to the idiot is not worth my care.
William Blake
Great things are done when men and mountains meet.
William Blake
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 the man hath, his house, his wife, his children.
William Blake
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.
William Blake
Want of money and the distress of a thief can never be alleged as the cause of his thieving, for many honest people endure greater hardships with fortitude. We must therefore seek the cause elsewhere than in want of money, for that is the miser's passion, not the thief s.
William Blake
To the eyes of a miser a guinea is more beautiful than the sun, and a bag worn with the use of money has more beautiful proportions than a vine filled with grapes.
William Blake
Think in the morning. Act in the noon. Eat in the evening. Sleep in the night.
William Blake
Poetry fettered, fetters the human race. Nations are destroyed or flourish in proportion as their poetry, painting, and music are destroyed or flourish.
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
Poetry fettered, fetters the human race. Nations are destroyed or flourish in proportion as their poetry, painting, and music are destroyed or flourish.
William Blake
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!
William Blake
The glory of Christianity is to conquer by forgiveness.
William Blake
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!
William Blake
Prisons are built with stones of Law. Brothels with the bricks of religion.
William Blake
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
He who would do good to another must do it in Minute Particulars: general Good is the plea of the scoundrel, hypocrite, and flatterer, for Art and Science cannot exist but in minutely organized Particulars.
William Blake
Art is the tree of life. Science is the tree of death.
William Blake
The foundation of empire is art and science. Remove them or degrade them, and the empire is no more. Empire follows art and not vice versa as Englishmen suppose.
William Blake
Excessive sorrow laughs. Excessive joy weeps.
William Blake
The thankful receiver bears a plentiful harvest.
William Blake
In seed time learn, in harvest teach, in winter enjoy.
William Blake
Eternity is in love with the productions of time.
William Blake
Travelers repose and dream among my leaves.
William Blake
The man who never in his mind and thoughts travel'd to heaven is no artist.
William Blake
A truth that's told with bad intent beats all the lies you can invent.
William Blake
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.
William Blake
The road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom.
William Blake
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 the man hath, his house, his wife, his children.
William Blake
The hours of folly are measured by the clock but of wisdom, no clock can measure.
William Blake
The thankful receiver bears a plentiful harvest.
William Blake