846 Quotes by William Blake

I must create a system, or be enslaved by another man's. I will not reason and compare: my business is to create.

Love seeketh not Itself to pleaseNor for itself hath any care,But for another gives its easeAnd builds a Heaven in Hell's despair.'So sung a little Clod of ClayTrodden with the cattle's feet,But a Pebble of the brookWarbled out these metres meet:'Love seeketh only Self to please,To bind another to Its delight,Joys in another's loss of ease,And builds a Hell in Heaven's despite.

The glory of Christianity is to conquer by forgiveness.

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

I know that this world is a world of Imagination and Vision.

Art is the Tree of Life, Science is the Tree of Death.

The lamb misused breeds public strifeAnd yet forgives the butcher's knife.

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.

The following Discourse [on art, by Sir Joshua Reynolds] is particularly Interesting to Blockheads as it endeavours to prove that There is No such thing as Inspiration & that any Man of a plain Understanding may by Thieving from Others become a Mich Angelo.