William Blake Quotes

He who binds to himself a joy
Does the winged life destroy;
But he who kisses the joy as it flies
Lives in Eternity's sunrise.

~ William Blake Quotes
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Improvement makes straight roads; but the crooked roads without improvement are the roads of genius.

~ William Blake Quotes
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If the doors of perception were cleansed, everything would appear to man as it is, infinite.

~ William Blake Quotes from The Marriage of Heaven and Hell
Inspirational Quotes on: Perception, William Blake

I rest not from my great task! | To open the Eternal Worlds, | to open the immortal Eyes of Man | Inwards into the Worlds of Thought; | Into eternity, ever expanding | In the Bosom of God, | The Human Imagination

~ William Blake Quotes from Jerusalem
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"Does a firm persuasion that a thing is so, make it so?" He replied, "All poets believe it does. And in ages of imagination, this firm persuasion removes mountains; but many are not capable of firm persuasion of anything."

~ William Blake Quotes from The Marriage of Heaven and Hell
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I must create a system or be enslav'd by another man's. I will not reason or compare: my business is to create.

~ William Blake Quotes
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