846 Quotes by William Blake

The eagle never lost so much time as when he submitted to learn from the crow.

The Sun does arise, / And make happy the skies; / The merry bells ring / To welcome the Spring.

Never seek to tell thy love, / Love that never told can be; / For the gentle wind doth move / Silently, invisibly. / I told my love, I told my love, / I told my heart, / Trembling, cold, in ghastly fears. / Ah! she did depart! / Soon after she was gone from me, / A traveller came by, / Silently, invisibly: / He took her with a sigh.

Improvement makes strait roads: but the crooked roads without improvement are roads of genius.

All futurity seems teeming with endless destruction never to be repelled. Desperate remorse swallows the present in a quenchless rage.

Cruelty has a human heart, / And Jealousy a human face; / Terror the human form divine, / And Secresy the human dress. / The human dress is forged iron, / The human form a fiery forge, / The human face a furnace sealed, / The human heart its hungry gorge.

There is a smile of love, / And there is a smile of deceit, / And there is a smile of smiles / In which these two smiles meet.

Love and harmony combine, / And round our souls entwine / While thy branches mix with mine, / And our roots together join.

Can I see another's woe, / And not be in sorrow, too? / Can I see another's grief, / And not seek for kind relief?