William Blake Quotes About Life

Quotes about: Life

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

  William Blake

  Inspirational, Life, Spiritual

  The Marriage of Heaven and Hell "A Memorable Fancy" plate 14 (1790 - 1793). Inspired the title of Aldous Huxley's 1954 book about drug experimentation, The Doors of Perception, which in turn inspired the name of the 1960s rock group The Doors.

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

  William Blake

  Inspirational, Life, Adventure

• The road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom.

  William Blake

  Life, Greed, Experience

  The Marriage of Heaven and Hell "Proverbs of Hell" (1790 - 1793)

• 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 sun rise.

  William Blake

  Life, Happiness, Happy

  William Blake (2000). “The Selected Poems of William Blake”, p.6, Wordsworth Editions

• In seed time learn, in harvest teach, in winter enjoy.

  William Blake

  Life, Thinking Of You, Nature

  William Blake, William Butler Yeats (1905). “Collected Poems”, p.165, Psychology Press

• Love seeketh not itself to please, nor for itself hath any care, but for another gives its ease, and builds a Heaven in Hell's despair.

  William Blake

  Love, Life, Broken Heart

  'Songs of Experience' (1794) 'The Clod and the Pebble'

• The eagle never lost so much time as when he submitted to learn of the crow

  William Blake

  Life, Time, Eagles

  William Blake (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of William Blake (Illustrated)”, p.203, Delphi Classics

• This life's dim windows of the soul Distorts the heavens from pole to pole And leads you to believe a lie When you see with, not through, the eye.

  William Blake

  Life, Time, Lying

  'The Everlasting Gospel' (c.1818) (d) l. 99

• Joy and woe are woven fine,
  A clothing for the soul divine.
  Under every grief and pine
  Runs a joy with silken twine.

  William Blake

  Inspirational, Life, Running

  William Blake (1868). “Songs of Innocence and of Experience, Showing the Two Contrary States of the Human Soul”, p.98

• First thought is best in Art, second in other matters.

  William Blake

  Inspirational, Life, Art

• For everything that lives is holy, life delights in life.

  William Blake

  Life, Growth, Delight

  William Blake (2000). “The Selected Poems of William Blake”, p.243, Wordsworth Editions

• He who desires, but acts not, breeds pestilence.

  William Blake

  Life, Desire, Acting

  'The Marriage of Heaven and Hell' (1790-3) 'Proverbs of Hell'

• The Sick Rose O Rose, thou art sick. The invisible worm That flies in the night In the howling storm Has found out thy bed Of crimson joy, And his dark secret love Does thy life destroy.

  William Blake

  Life, Art, Dark

  'Songs of Experience' (1794) 'The Sick Rose'

• What is grand is necessarily obscure to weak men. That which can be made explicit to the idiot is not worth my care.

  William Blake

  Life, Men, Weak Man

  William Blake (2008). “The Complete Poetry and Prose of William Blake”, p.702, Univ of California Press

• Abstinence sows sand all over The ruddy limbs and flaming hair, But desire gratified Plants fruits of life and beauty there.

  William Blake

  Life, Hair, Desire

  'MS Note-Book' p. 105

• To Chloe's breast young Cupid slily stole,
  But he crept in at Myra's pocket-hole.

  William Blake

  Life, Pockets, Chloe

  William Blake (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of William Blake (Illustrated)”, p.809, Delphi Classics

• Man has no Body distinct from his Soul; for that called Body is a portion of Soul discerned by the five Senses, the chief inlets of Soul in this age.

  William Blake

  Life, Men, Soul

  William Blake, Michael Mason (1998). “Selected Poetry”, p.75, Oxford University Press, USA

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