William Blake

(70 votes)   Cruelty has a Human Heart, And jealousy a Human Face; Terror the Human Form Divine, And secrecy the Human Dress. The Human Dress is forged Iron, The Human Form a Fiery Forge, The Human Face a Furnace seal d, The Human Heart its hungry gorge.

William Blake
1757-1827, British Poet, Painter

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(49 votes)   Some say that happiness is not good for mortals, and they ought to be answered that sorrow is not fit for immortals and is utterly useless to any one; a blight never does good to a tree, and if a blight kill not a tree but it still bear fruit, let none say that the fruit was in consequence of the blight.

William Blake
1757-1827, British Poet, Painter

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(342 votes)   You smile with pomp and rigor, you talk of benevolence and virtue; I act with benevolence and virtue and get murdered time after time.

William Blake
1757-1827, British Poet, Painter

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(305 votes)   Then my verse I dishonor, my pictures despise, my person degrade and my temper chastise; and the pen is my terror, the pencil my shame; and my talents I bury, and dead is my fame.

William Blake
1757-1827, British Poet, Painter

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(288 votes)   Embraces are cominglings from the head even to the feet, and not a pompous high priest entering by a secret place.

William Blake
1757-1827, British Poet, Painter

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(246 votes)   Commerce is so far from being beneficial to arts, or to empire, that it is destructive of both, as all their history shows, for the above reason of individual merit being its great hatred. Empires flourish till they become commercial, and then they are scattered abroad to the four winds.

William Blake
1757-1827, British Poet, Painter

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(166 votes)   When thou seest an eagle, thou seest a portion of genius; lift up thy head!

William Blake
1757-1827, British Poet, Painter

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(144 votes)   Love seeketh not itself to please, but for another gives its ease.

William Blake

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(143 votes)   All futurity seems teeming with endless destruction never to be repelled; Desperate remorse swallows the present in a quenchless rage.

William Blake
1757-1827, British Poet, Painter

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(141 votes)   For Mercy has a human heart, Pity, a human face, And Love, the human form divine, And Peace, the human dress

William Blake

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(138 votes)   Men are admitted into Heaven not because they have curbed and governed their passions or have no passions, but because they have cultivated their understandings. The treasures of Heaven are not negations of passion, but realities of intellect, from which all the passions emanate uncurbed in their eternal glory. The fool shall not enter into Heaven let him be ever so holy.

William Blake
1757-1827, British Poet, Painter

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(137 votes)   I see every thing I paint in this world, but everybody does not see alike. To the eyes of a miser a guinea is more beautiful than the sun, and a bag worn with the use of money has more beautiful proportions than a vine filled with grapes.

William Blake
1757-1827, British Poet, Painter

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(125 votes)   The generations of men run on in the tide of time, but leave their destined lineaments permanent for ever and ever.

William Blake
1757-1827, British Poet, Painter

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(120 votes)   If the doors of perception were cleansed everything would appear to man as it is, infinite. For man has closed himself up, till he sees all things thru chinks of his cavern.

William Blake
1757-1827, British Poet, Painter

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(120 votes)   Thy friendship oft has made my heart to ache; do be my enemy-for friendship's sake.

William Blake

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