Famous Quotes by William Blake

“For every thing that lives is Holy.”

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

“Truth can never be told so as to be understood and not be believed.”

The road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom.

In the universe, there are things that are known, and things that are unknown, and in between, there are doors.

You never know what is enough unless you know what is more than enough.

The man who never alters his opinion is like standing water, and breeds reptiles of the mind.

He who desires but acts not, breeds pestilence.

The tree which moves some to tears of joy is in the eyes of others only a green thing that stands in the way.

A truth that's told with bad intent beats all the lies you can invent.

I must create a system or be enslaved by another man's; I will not reason and compare: my business is to create.

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

He who kisses joy as it flies by will live in eternity’s sunrise.

Without contraries is no progression. Attraction and repulsion, reason and energy, love and hate, are necessary to human existence.