Quotes by William Blake

Imagination is the real and eternal world of which this vegetable universe is but a faint shadow.

No one flys too high if they fly on their own wings. (Originally "man" and "his.")

When the doors of perception are truly cleansed, things will appear as they really are, infinite.

The stars are threshed and the souls are threshed from their husks.

To see a world in a grain of sand and a heaven in a wild flower To hold infinity in the palm of your hand and eternity in an hour.

If the fool would persist in his folly he would become wise.

The voice of honest indignation is the voice of God.

  If the doors of perception were cleansed every thing would appear
to man as it is: infinite.
  For man has closed himself up, till he sees all things thro' narrow
chinks of his cavern.

"Think in the morning, act in the noon, read in the evening, and sleep at night."

He who bends to himself a joy Doth the winged life destroy But he who kisses life as it flies Lives in eternity's sunrise