If the doors of perception were cleansed, everything would appear to man as it is: infinite.
William Blake Quotes
1757–1827 England
William Blake (November 28 1757 – August 12 1827) was an English poet, Christian mystic, painter, printmaker, and engraver.
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Also known as: Blake, Blake, William
182 quotes
Milton (1809)
Songs of Experience (1794)
Truth can never be told so as to be understood, and not be believed.
The Marriage of Heaven and Hell (1790)
If the fool would persist in his folly he would become wise.
The Marriage of Heaven and Hell (1790)
Eternity is in love with the productions of time.
The Marriage of Heaven and Hell (1790)
A truth that's told with bad intent
Beats all the lies you can invent.
Auguries of Innocence (1803)
The eagle never lost so much time as when he submitted to learn of the crow.
The Marriage of Heaven and Hell (1790)
Prisons are built with stones of law; brothels with bricks of religion.
The Marriage of Heaven and Hell (1790)
Letter to Revd. Dr. Trusler (1799)
The Tyger (1794)
Auguries of Innocence (1803)
The hours of folly are measur'd by the clock, but of wisdom no clock can measure.
The Marriage of Heaven and Hell (1790)
The true method of knowledge is experiment.
All Religions are One (1788)
Terror in the house does roar,
But Pity stands before the door.
Poems from Blake's Notebook (1804)
Improvement makes strait roads: but the crooked roads without Improvement are roads of Genius.
The man who never alters his opinion is like standing water, and breeds reptiles of the mind.
The Marriage of Heaven and Hell (1790)
Always be ready to speak your mind, and a base man will avoid you.
The Marriage of Heaven and Hell (1790)
Prudence is a rich ugly old maid courted by Incapacity.
Attribution
Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: William Blake (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.