846 Quotes by William Blake

My silks and fine array, My smiles and languished air, By love are driv'n away And mournful lean Despair Brings me yew to deck my grave: Such end true lovers have.

Men are admitted into heaven not because they have curbed or governed their passions, but because they have cultivate their understandings.

Gratitude is heaven itself.

The crow wished everything was black, the owl, that every thing was white.

How sweet I roamed from field to field, And tasted all the summer's pride, Till I the prince of love beheld, Who in the sunny beams did glide!

How can a bird that is born for joy Sit in a cage and sing?

Energy is the only life, and is from the body; and reason is the bound or outward circumference of energy. Energy is eternal delight.

The Child's Toys and the Old Man's ReasonsAre the Fruits of the Two seasons.

As I was walking among the fires of Hell, delighted with the enjoyments of Genius; which to Angels look like torment and insanity, I collected some of their Proverbs.