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For Mercy has a human heartPity, a human face:And Love, the human form divine,And Peace, the human dress. Then every man of every clime,That prays in his distress,Prays to the human form divineLove Mercy Pity Peace.
-William Blake
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Ambition
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No bird soars too high if he soars with his own wings.
-William Blake
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Angels
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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.
-William Blake
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Baby, Babies
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I have no name: I am but two days old. What shall I call thee? I happy am, Joy is my name. Sweet joy befall thee!
-William Blake
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Beauty
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Exuberance is beauty.
-William Blake
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Birds
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When thou seest an eagle, thou seest a portion of genius; lift up thy head!
-William Blake
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Birth
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My mother groaned, my father wept, into the dangerous world I leapt; helpless, naked, piping loud, like a fiend hid in a cloud.
-William Blake
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Bureaucracy
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Nothing can be more contemptible than to suppose Public Records to be true.
-William Blake
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Business
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Commerce is so far from being beneficial to arts, or to empire, that it is destructive of both, as all their history shows, for the above reason of individual merit being its great hatred. Empires flourish till they become commercial, and then they are scattered abroad to the four winds.
-William Blake
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Challenges
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Great things are done when men and mountains meet. This is not done by jostling in the street.
-William Blake
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Christianity
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Christianity is art and not money. Money is its curse.
-William Blake
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The glory of Christianity is to conquer by forgiveness.
-William Blake
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Thinking as I do that the Creator of this world is a very cruel being, and being a worshipper of Christ, I cannot help saying: the Son, O how unlike the Father! First God Almighty comes with a thump on the head. Then Jesus Christ comes with a balm to heal it.
-William Blake
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Creativity
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I must create a system or be enslaved by another man s; I will not reason and compare: my business is to create.
-William Blake
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Crime
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Want of money and the distress of a thief can never be alleged as the cause of his thieving, for many honest people endure greater hardships with fortitude. We must therefore seek the cause elsewhere than in want of money, for that is the miser's passion, not the thief s.
-William Blake
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Deception/Lying
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A truth that's told with bad intent
Beats all the lies you can invent.
-William Blake, Auguries of Innocence
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Desires
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Those who restrain their desires, do so because theirs is weak enough to be restrained.
-William Blake
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He who desires but does not act, breeds pestilence.
-William Blake
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Despair
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Then my verse I dishonor, my pictures despise, my person degrade and my temper chastise; and the pen is my terror, the pencil my shame; and my talents I bury, and dead is my fame.
-William Blake
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Dissent
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Opposition is true friendship.
-William Blake
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Doubt
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If the Sun and Moon should ever doubt, they'd immediately go out.
-William Blake
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Duality
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Without contraries is no progression. Attraction and repulsion, reason and energy, love and hate, are necessary to human existence.
-William Blake
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Empire
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The foundation of empire is art and science. Remove them or degrade them, and the empire is no more. Empire follows art and not vice versa as Englishmen suppose.
-William Blake
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Enemy, Enemies
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When a sinister person means to be your enemy, they always start by trying to become your friend.
-William Blake
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Energy
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Energy is an eternal delight, and he who desires, but acts not, breeds pestilence.
-William Blake
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Books by and about William Blake