William Blake Quotations

This life’s dim windows of the soul Distorts the heavens from pole to pole And leads you to believe a lie When you see with not through the eye.

It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend.

When I tell the truth it is not for the sake of convincing those who do not know it but for the sake of defending those that do.

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

As I was walking among the fires of Hell delighted with the enjoyments of Genius which to Angels look like torment and insanity. I collected some of their Proverbs.

Those who restrain desire do so because theirs is weak enough to be restrained.

To generalize is to be an idiot.

I must create a system or be enslaved by another man’s.

And because I am happy and dance and sing They think they have done me no injury.

If the doors of perception were cleansed everything would appear to man as it is infinite.

What is now proved was once only imagined.

You are forgiven for your happiness and your successes only if you generously consent to share them.

He who desires but acts not breeds pestilence.

Love seeketh not itself to please Nor for itself hath any care But for another gives its ease And builds a Heaven in Hell’s dispite.

No bird soars too high if he soars with his own wings.

Where Mercy Love and Pity dwell There God is dwelling too.

A truth that’s told with bad intent Beats all the lies you can invent.

Mutual forgiveness of each vice. Such are the Gates of Paradise.

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