Quotes from William Blake

Those who control their passions do so because their passions are weak enough to be controlled.

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 her all 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. - LOVE'S SECRET

If the Sun and Moon should ever doubt, they'd immediately go out.

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. A robin redbreast in a cage Puts all heaven in a rage. A dove-house filled with doves and pigeons Shudders hell through all its regions.

Never seek to tell thy love; Love that never told can be. For the gentle wind does move silently.. invisibly.

Prisons are built with stones of Law, Brothels with bricks of Religion

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

When a sinister person means to be your enemy, they always start by trying to become your friend

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

Knowledge is Life with wings

O Rose, thou art sick. The invisible worm That flies in the night In the howling storm Has found out thy bed Of crimson joy, And his dark secret love Does thy life destroy.

Little Fly Thy summers play, My thoughtless hand Has brush'd away. Am not I A fly like thee? Or art not thou A man like me? For I dance And drink & sing: Till some blind hand Shall brush my wing. If thought is life And strength & breath: And the want Of thought is death; Then am I A happy fly, If I live, Or if I die

Without Contraries is no Progression.

Both read the Bible day and night, But thou read'st black where I read white.

I will not reason and compare my business is to create.

A fool sees not the same tree that a wise man sees.

Energy is eternal delight.

The crow wished everything was black, the Owl, that everything was white.

Then cherish pity, lest you drive an angel from your door.

Opposition is true Friendship.

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

The Garden of Love I went to the Garden of Love, And saw what I never had seen: A Chapel was built in the midst, Where I used to play on the green. And the gates of this Chapel were shut, And 'Thou shalt not' writ over the door; So I turn'd to the Garden of Love, That so many sweet flowers bore. And I saw it was filled with graves, And tomb-stones where flowers should be: And Priests in black gowns, were walking their rounds, And binding with briars, my joys & desires.

Mercy is the golden chain by which society is bound together.

I myself do nothing. The Holy Spirit accomplishes all through me.