William Blake Quotes

The busy bee has no time for sorrow.
WILLIAM BLAKE

Sadness Time
For I dance And drink and sing, Till some blind hand Shall brush my wing.
WILLIAM BLAKE

Dance God Hands Myself Sing Wings
For all eternity, I forgive you and you forgive me.
WILLIAM BLAKE

Forever Forgiveness Myself
Improvement makes strait roads, but the crooked roads without Improvement, are roads of Genius.
WILLIAM BLAKE

Genius Improvement Road
Everything to be imagined is an image of truth.
WILLIAM BLAKE

Imagination Philosophy Truth
The apple tree never asks the beech how he shall grow, nor the lion, the horse, how he shall take his prey.
WILLIAM BLAKE

Growth Himself Lion Tree
And is he honest who resists his genius or conscience only for the sake of present ease or gratification
WILLIAM BLAKE

Genius Gratitude Honesty Present
As a man is, so he sees. As the eye is formed, such are its powers.
WILLIAM BLAKE

Eyes Himself Man Power See
The bird a nest, the spider a web, man friendship.
WILLIAM BLAKE

Animal Friendship Man
To generalize is to be an idiot.
WILLIAM BLAKE

Stupidity
Great things are done when men and mountains meet.
WILLIAM BLAKE

Greatness Man Nature
Without contraries is no progression. Attraction and repulsion, reason and energy, love and hate, are necessary to human existence.
WILLIAM BLAKE

Attraction Energy Existence Hate Human Love Necessary Progress Reason
Knowledge is Life with wings
WILLIAM BLAKE

Knowledge Life Wings