Quotes from William Blake

She who dwells with me whom I have loved with such communion, that no place on earth can ever be solitude to me.

Make your own rules or be a slave to another man's.

He who shall hurt the little wren Shall never be beloved by men.

Great things are done when men and mountains meet.

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.

Man has closed himself up, till he sees all things thro' narrow chinks of his cavern.

God only acts and is, in existing beings or men.

I must create a system, or be enslav'd by another man's.

In every cry of every man, In every infant's cry of fear, In every voice, in every ban, The mind-forg'd manacles I hear.

Every man who is not an artist is a traitor to his own nature.

Nothing is real beyond imaginative patterns men make of reality.

Man was made for joy and woe, and when this we rightly know through the world we safely go. Joy and woe are woven fine, a clothing for the soul to bind.

Great things are done when men and mountains meet; These are not done by jostling in the street.

What is it men in women do require: The lineaments of gratified desire. What is it women do in men require: The lineaments of gratified desire.

Let the men do their duty & the women will be such wonders; the female life lives from the light of the male: see a man's female dependants, you know the man.

Do what you will, this world's a fiction and is made up of contradiction.

The pride of the peacock is the glory of God. The lust of the goat is the bounty of God. The wrath of the lion is the wisdom of God. The nakedness of woman is the work of God.

The nakedness of woman is the work of God.

Prisons are built with stones of Law. Brothels with the bricks of religion.

Every harlot was a virgin once.

Ages are All Equal. / But Genius is Always Above The Age.

My mother groaned, my father wept, into the dangerous world I leapt.

A man can't soar too high, when he flies with his own wings.

Great things are done when men and mountains meet.