Quotes from William Blake

Where others see but the dawn coming over the hill, I see the soul of God shouting for joy.

The fox provides for himself, but God provides for the lion.

Some will say, Is not God alone the Prolific? I answer, God only Acts & Is, in existing beings or Men.

The voice of honest indignation is the voice of God.

God is the poetic genius in each of us.

Think not thou canst sigh a sigh And thy maker is not by; Think not thou canst weep a tear And thy maker is not near.

May God us keep From Single vision and Newton's sleep.

God and His Priest and King,...make up a heaven of our misery.

O God, protect me from my friends, that they have not power over me. Thou hast giv'n me power to protect myself from thy bitterest enemies.

Active evil is better than passive good

One law for the lion and ox is oppression.

The worship of God is, Honouring his gifts in other men each according to his genius, and loving the greatest men best; those who envy or calumniate great men hate God, for there is no other God.

He whose face gives no light, shall never become a star.

Life delights in life.

Mirth is better than fun and happiness is better than mirth.

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

For where'er the sun does shine, And where'er the rain does fall, Babe can never hunger there, Nor poverty the mind appall.

A robin redbreast in a cage Puts all heaven in a rage.

Each man is haunted until his humanity awakens.

The imagination is not a state: it is the human existence itself.

If you cannot imagine with the mind's eye much more than you can see with the mortal eye, you have a very poor imagination indeed.

In your own bosom you bear your heaven and earth, And all you behold, though it appears without, It is within, in your imagination, Of which this world of mortality is but a shadow.

One Power alone makes a Poet: Imagination. The Divine Vision.

The world of imagination is the world of eternity. It is the divine bosom into which we shall all go after death of the vegetative body.