William Blake Quotes & William Blake Sayings

"Each man is haunted until his humanity awakens." William Blake Popular Quotes "It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend." William Blake Quotes "No bird soars too high if he soars with his own wings." William Blake "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 Remarks 'Twas on a Holy Thursday, their innocent faces clean, / The Children walking two and two, in red and blue and green. William Blake Jesus was all virtue, and acted from impulse, not from rules. William Blake The Foundation of empire is art and science. Remove them or degrade them, and the empire is no more. Empire follows art and not vice versa as Englishmen suppose. William Blake A dog starved at his master's gate, Predicts the ruin of the state William Blake A fool sees not the same tree that a wise man sees. William Blake Popular Quotes A Robin Redbreast in a cage Puts all Heaven in a Rage. William Blake Popular Quotes A truth that's told with bad intent Beats all the lies you can invent. William Blake Adages A truth that's told with bad intent beats all the lies you can invent. William Blake Abstinence sows sand all overThe ruddy limbs & flaming hair,But Desire GratifiedPlants fruits of life & beauty there. William Blake Remarks Active Evil is better than Passive Good. William Blake Adages All futurity seems teeming with endless destruction never to be repelled; Desperate remorse swallows the present in a quenchless rage. William Blake Always be ready to speak you mind and a base man will avoid you. William Blake Always be ready to speak your mind and a base man will avoid you. William Blake And because I am happy and dance and sing, They think they have done me no injury. William Blake Remarks And because I am happy and dance and sing,They think they have done me no injury. William Blake Quotes And I made a rural pen, / And I stained the water clear, / And I wrote my happy songs / Every child may joy to hear. William Blake And priests in black gowns were walking their rounds, / And binding with briars my joys and desires. William Blake Remarks And the gates of this Chapel were shut, / And `Thou shalt not' writ over the door. William Blake Art can never exist without Naked Beauty display'd. William Blake Art is the tree of life. Science is the tree of death. God is Jesus. William Blake Sayings As a man is, so he sees William Blake Quotes As I was walking among the fires of Hell, delighted with the enjoyments of Genius; which to Angels look like torment and insanity, I collected some of their Proverbs, thinking that as the Sayings used in a nation mark its character, so the Proverbs of Hell show the nature of Infernal wisdom better than any description of buildings or garments. William Blake As the air to a bird or the sea to a fish, so is contempt to the contemptible. William Blake As the caterpillar chooses the fairest leaves to lay her eggs on, so the priest lays his curse on the fairest joys. William Blake Better murder an infant in its cradle than nurse an unacted desire. William Blake Adages Bring me my bow of burning gold!Bring me my arrows of desire!Bring me my spear! O clouds, unfold!Bring me my chariot of fire! William Blake Quotes Bring out number weight and measure in a year of dearth. William Blake Quotes But to go to school in a summer morn, Oh, it drives all joy away! Under a cruel eye outworn, The little ones spend the day in sighing and dismay William Blake Quotations Can I see another's woe, / And not be in sorrow too? William Blake Adages Can I see another's woe, and not be in sorrow, too? Can I see another's grief, and not seek for kind relief? William Blake Choosing forms of worship form poetic tales. William Blake Christianity is art and not money. Money is its curse. William Blake Cruelty has a human heart, And jealousy a human face Terror, the human form divine, And secrecy, the human dress William Blake Remarks 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 Adages Damn braces: Bless relaxes. William Blake Popular Quotes Do what you will, this world's a fiction and is made up of contradiction William Blake Adages Does the Eagle know what is in the pit / Or wilt thou go ask the Mole? / Can Wisdom be put in a silver rod, / Or Love in a golden bowl? William Blake Quotations Energy is eternal delight William Blake Sayings Energy is eternal delight. William Blake Popular Quotes England! awake! awake! awake! / Jerusalem thy sister calls! / Why wilt thou sleep the sleep of death, / And close her from thy ancient walls? William Blake Quotes Enthusiastic Admiration is the first Principle of Knowledge and its last. William Blake Quotes Eternity is in love with the productions of time. William Blake Sayings Every Night and every Morn Some to Misery are born. Every Morn and every Night Some are born to Sweet Delight, Some are born to Endless Night. William Blake Popular Quotes Every Night and every MornSome to Misery are born.Every Morn and every NightSome are born to Sweet Delight,Some are born to Endless Night. William Blake Every tear from every eye / Becomes a babe in Eternity. William Blake Every thing possible to be believed is an image of truth. William Blake Remarks Every wolf 's and lion's howl / Raises from Hell a human soul. William Blake Quotes Everything that lives, lives not alone, nor for itself. William Blake Excess of sorrow laughs, excess of joy weeps. William Blake Excessive sorrow laughs. Excessive joy weeps. William Blake Expect poison from the standing water. William Blake Exuberance is beauty. William Blake Quotations Father! father! where are you going? / O do not walk so fast. / Speak, father, speak to your little boy, / Or else I shall be lost. William Blake Sayings For everything exists and not one sigh nor smile nor tear, one hair nor particle of dust, not one can pass away. William Blake Sayings For everything that lives is holy, life delights in life. William Blake Remarks For he hears the lambs innocent call.And he hears the ewes tender reply.He is watchful while they are in peace.For they know when their Shepherd is nigh. William Blake For Mercy has a human heart, Pity, a human face, And Love, the human form divine, And Peace, the human dress. William Blake For Mercy has a human heart; Pity, a human face; Love, the human form divine; and Peace, the human dress. William Blake Remarks For the Eye altering alters all;The Senses roll themselves in fearAnd the flat Earth becomes a Ball. William Blake Remarks Forgiveness of enemies can only come upon their repentance. William Blake Great Men & Fools do often me InspireBut the Greater Fool the Greater Liar. William Blake Popular Quotes Great things are done when men and mountains meet William Blake Great things are done when men and mountains meet. This is not done by jostling in the street. William Blake 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 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 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 Popular Quotes He who desires but acts not, breeds pestilence William Blake Quotes He who desires, but acts not, breeds pestilence. William Blake Popular Quotes He who doubts from what he seesWill ne'er believe, do what you please. William Blake He who loves his enemies betrays his friends; this surely is not what Jesus meant. William Blake He who shall hurt the little wren / Shall never be beloved by men. William Blake He who shall teach the child to doubt / The rotting grave shall ne'er get out. William Blake Sayings He whose face gives no light, shall never become a star. William Blake He's a Blockhead who wants a proof of what he Can't Percieve And he's a Fool who tries to make such a Blockhead believe. William Blake Quotes He's a Blockhead who wants a proof of what heCan't PerceiveAnd he's a Fool who tries to make such aBlockhead believe. William Blake Popular Quotes Hear the voice of the Bard! / Who present, past, and future sees; / Whose ears have heard/ The Holy Word / That walked among the ancient trees. William Blake Quotations Humility is only doubt, / And does the sun and moon blot out. William Blake Popular Quotes I am really sorry to see my countrymen trouble themselves about politics. If men were wise, the most arbitrary princes could not hurt them. If they are not wise, the freest government is compelled to be a tyranny. Princes appear to me to be fools. Houses of Commons and Houses of Lords appear to me to be fools; they seem to me to be something else besides human life. William Blake Quotations I can look at the knot in a piece of wood until it frightens me. William Blake Popular Quotes I care not whether a man is good or evil; all that I care / Is whether he is a wise man or a fool. Go! put off holiness, / And put on intellect. William Blake I cry, Love! Love! Love! happy happy Love! free as the mountain wind! William Blake Sayings I do not like the man's face. He looks as if he will live to be hanged. William Blake Adages I feel that a Man may be happy in This World. And I know that This World Is a World of Imagination & Vision. William Blake Adages I give you the end of a golden string; / Only wind it into a ball, / It will lead you in at Heaven's gate, / Built in Jerusalem's wall. William Blake Popular Quotes I looked for my soul but my soul I could not see. I looked for my God but my God eluded me. I looked for a friend and then I found all three. William Blake I love laughing. William Blake Adages I must Create a System or be enslav'd by another Man's William Blake I must Create a System, or be enslaved by another Man's; / I will not Reason and Compare; my business is to Create. William Blake I myself do nothing. The Holy Spirit accomplishes all through me. William Blake Sayings I see the Fourfold Man; the Humanity in deadly sleep, / And its fallen Emanation, the Spectre and its cruel Shadow. / I see the Past, Present, and Future existing all at once / Before me. William Blake I was angry with my friend I told my wrath, my wrath did end. I was angry with my foe: I told it not, my wrath did grow. William Blake Adages I was angry with my friend I told my wrath, my wrath did end. I was angry with my foe: I told it not, my wrath did grow. William Blake I was angry with my friend: I told my wrath, my wrath did end. I was angry with my foe: I told it not, my wrath did grow. William Blake 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 thru' narrow chinks of his cavern. William Blake Quotations If the doors of perception were cleansed everything would appear to man as if it is, infinite William Blake If the doors of perception were cleansed, everything would appear as it is - infinite William Blake If the fool would persist in his folly he would become wise. William Blake If the lion was advised by the fox, he would be cunning. William Blake Popular Quotes If the Sun and Moon should doubt, / They'd immediately go out. William Blake Sayings If you have form'd a circle to go into, Go into it yourself, and see how you would do. They said this mystery never shall cease: The priest promotes war, and the soldier peace. William Blake Popular Quotes If you trap the moment before it's ripe, The tears of repentance you'll certainly wipe; But if once you let the ripe moment go, You can never wipe off the tears of woe William Blake Adages Improvement makes straight roads; but the crooked roads without improvement are roads of genius William Blake Quotations In every cry of every man,In every infant's cry of fear,In every voice, in every ban,The mind-forged manacles I hear. William Blake In seed time learn, in harvest teach, in winter enjoy. William Blake Innocence dwells with wisdom, but never with ignorance William Blake Quotations Innocence dwells with Wisdom, but never with Ignorance. William Blake It is an easy thing to talk of patience to the afflicted. William Blake It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend. William Blake It is not because angels are holier than men or devils that makes them angels, but because they do not expect holiness from one another, but from God alone. William Blake Sayings It is not because angels are holier than men or devils that makes them angels, but because they do not expect holiness from one another, but from God only. William Blake Joys impregnate, sorrows bring forth. William Blake Sayings Let man wear the fell of the lion, woman the fleece of the sheep. William Blake Listen to the fools reproach! it is a kingly title! William Blake Quotes Love seeketh not Itself to please, Nor for itself hath any care, But for another gives it ease, And builds a Heaven in Hell's despair. William Blake 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 Man has closed himself up, till he sees all things thro' narrow chinks of his cavern. William Blake Popular Quotes 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 Popular Quotes Man's Desires are limited by his Perceptions; none can desire what he has not perceived. William Blake Sayings 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 Quotations Mere enthusiasm is the all in all. . . .Passion and expression are beauty itself. William Blake Mutual Forgiveness of each vice, / Such are the Gates of Paradise. William Blake Mutual forgiveness of each vice. Such are the Gates of Paradise. William Blake My mother bore me in the southern wild, / And I am black, but O! my soul is white. William Blake Quotations My mother groan'd, my father wept Into the dangerous world I leapt, Helpless, naked, piping load, Like a friend hid in a cloud. William Blake My silks and fine array, My smiles and languished air, By love are driv'n away And mournful lean Despair Brings me yew to deck my grave: Such end true lovers have. William Blake Nature in darkness groans and men are bound to sullen contemplation in the night: restless they turn on beds of sorrow; in their inmost brain feeling the crushing wheels, they rise, they write the bitter words of stern philosophy and knead the bread of knowledge with tears and groans. William Blake Remarks Never seek to tell thy love, / Love that never told can be; / For the gentle wind does move / Silently, invisibly. William Blake Quotes No bird soars too high if he soars with his own wings. William Blake Popular Quotes No bird soars too high, if he soars with his own wings William Blake No bird soars too high, if he soars with his own wings. William Blake Quotations Nothing can be more contemptible than to suppose Public Records to be true. William Blake 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 Quotations O! why was I born with a different face? / Why was I not born like the rest of my race? William Blake Adages One thought fills immensity. William Blake Opposition is true friendship. William Blake Quotes Piping down the valleys wild, / Piping songs of pleasant glee, / On a cloud I saw a child. William Blake Poetry fettered, fetters the human race. Nations are destroyed or flourish in proportion as their poetry, painting, and music are destroyed or flourish. William Blake Quotes Praises reap not! Joys laugh not! Sorrows weep not! William Blake Popular Quotes Prepare your hearts for Death's cold hand! prepareYour souls for flight, your bodies for the earth;Prepare your arms for glorious victory;Prepare your eyes to meet a holy God!Prepare, prepare! William Blake Prisons are built with stones of Law, Brothels with bricks of Religion. William Blake Sayings Prudence is a rich ugly old maid courted by Incapacity. William Blake Adages see the world in a grain of sand ... And eternity in an hour. William Blake See what it is to play unfair!Where cheating is, there's mischief there. William Blake Adages Shame is pride's cloak. William Blake Remarks Since all the riches of this world May be gifts from the Devil and earthly kings, I should suspect that I worshipp'd the Devil If I thank'd my God for worldly things William Blake Popular Quotes Sleep, sleep, beauty bright,Dreaming in the joys of night;Sleep, sleep; in thy sleepLittle sorrows sit and weep. William Blake Quotes 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 Sayings Some will say,Is not God alone the Prolific? I answer,God only Acts & Is, in existing beings or Men. William Blake Adages Sweet babe, in thy face Soft desires I can trace, Secret joys and secret smiles, Little pretty infant wiles William Blake The ancient Poets animated all sensible objects with Gods or Geniuses, calling them by the names and adorning them with the properties of woods, rivers, mountains, lakes, cities, nations, and whatever their enlarged and numerous senses could perceive. And particularly they studied the genius of each city and county, placing it under its mental deity. Till a system was formed, which some took advantage of and enslaved the vulgar by attempting to realize or abstract the mental deities from their objects; thus began Priesthood. Choosing forms of worship from poetic tales. And at length they pronounced that the Gods had ordered such things. Thus men forgot that All deities reside in the human breast. William Blake The ancient tradition that the world will be consumed in fire at the end of six thousand years is true, as I have heard from Hell. William Blake Adages The Angel that presided o'er my birth / Said `Little creature, formed of joy and mirth, / Go, love without the help of anything on earth.' William Blake Popular Quotes The apple tree never asks the beech how he shall grow, nor the lion the horse, how he shall take his prey. William Blake The best wine is the oldest, the best water the newest. William Blake The bird a nest, the spider a web, man friendship. William Blake The bird a nest      the spider a web           the human friendship. William Blake Quotations The busy bee has no time for sorrow. William Blake Sayings The caterpillar on the leaf / Repeats to thee thy mother's grief. William Blake Remarks The countless gold of a merry heart, The rubies and pearls of a loving eye, The indolent never can bring to the mart, Nor the secret hoard up in his treasury. William Blake The Desire of Man being Infinite, the possession is Infinite, and himself Infinite. William Blake Quotes The difference between a bad artist and a good one is: The bad artist seems to copy a great deal; the good one really does. William Blake Sayings The eagle never lost so much time as when he submitted to learn of the crow. William Blake Quotes The eagle never lost so much time, as when he submitted to learn of the crow. William Blake Remarks The eye altering, alters all William Blake Sayings The eyes of fire, the nostrils of air, the mouth of war, the beard of earth. William Blake The fool who persists in his folly will become wise. William Blake The glory of Christianity is to conquer by forgiveness. William Blake The Goddess Fortune is the devil's servant, ready to kiss any one's ass. William Blake Popular Quotes The harlot's cry from street to street / Shall weave old England's winding-sheet. William Blake Sayings The head Sublime, the heart Pathos, the genitals Beauty, the hands & feet Proportion. William Blake The hours of folly are measured by the clock, but of wisdom no clock can measure. William Blake The hum of multitudes was there, but multitudes of lambs,Thousands of little boys and girls raising their innocent hands. William Blake Remarks The human mind cannot go beyond the gift of God, the Holy Ghost. To suppose that art can go beyond the finest specimens of art that are now in the world is not knowing what art is; it is being blind to the gifts of the spirit. William Blake The man who never alters his opinions is like standing water, and breeds reptiles of the mind. William Blake Quotes The man who never in his mind and thoughts travel'd to heaven is no artist. William Blake The moon, like a flowerIn heaven's high bower,With silent delightSits and smiles on the night. William Blake Sayings The most sublime act is to set another before you. William Blake Quotes The path of excess leads to the tower of wisdom. William Blake Adages The reason Milton wrote in fetters when he wrote of Angels and God, and at liberty when of Devils and Hell, is because he was a true poet, and of the Devil's party without knowing it. William Blake The road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom. William Blake The road to excess leads to the palace of wisdom...for we never know what is enough until we know what is more than enough. William Blake Adages The selfish smiling fool, and the sullen frowning fool, shall be both thought wise, that they may be a rod. William Blake The soul of sweet delight, can never be defiled. William Blake The sound is forced, the notes are few! William Blake The thankful receiver bears a plentiful harvest. William Blake The tigers of wrath are wiser than the horses of instruction. William Blake The tree which moves some to tears of joy is in the eyes of others only a green thing that stands in the way. Some see nature all ridicule and deformity... and some scarce see nature at all. But to the eyes of the man of imagination, nature is imagination itself. William Blake The tree which moves some to tears of joy is in the eyes of others only a green thing which stands in their way. William Blake The true method of knowledge is experiment. William Blake The Vision of Christ that thou dost see / Is my vision's greatest enemy. William Blake Popular Quotes The weak in courage is strong in cunning. William Blake The world of imagination is the world of eternity. It is the divine bosom into which we shall all go after the death of the vegetated [i.e. mortal] body. This world of imagination is infinite and eternal, whereas the world of generation is finite and temporal. There exist in that eternal world the eternal realities of everything which we see reflected in this vegetable glass of nature. William Blake Then I asked: `Does a firm persuasion that a thing is so, make it so?' He replied: `All Poets believe that it does, and in ages of imagination this firm persuasion removed mountains; but many are not capable of a firm persuasion of anything.' William Blake Quotes There certainly are moments in history when poets and painters connect so closely as to be one and the same person, William Blake There is no mistake so great as the mistake of not going on. William Blake They said this mystery never shall cease: the priest promotes war, and the soldier peace William Blake They suppose that Woman's Love is Sin; in consequence all the Loves & Graces with them are Sin. William Blake Popular Quotes Think in the morning. Act in the noon. Eat in the evening. Sleep in the night. William Blake Quotes This life's dim windows of the soulDistorts the heavens from pole to poleAnd leads you to believe a lieWhen you see with, not through, the eye. William Blake Those who restrain desire, do so because theirs is weak enough to be restrained. William Blake Those who restrain their desires, do so because theirs is weak enough to be restrained. William Blake Thy friendship oft has made my heart to ache; do be my enemy - for friendship's sake William Blake Adages Thy friendship oft has made my heart to ache; do be my enemy--for friendship's sake. William Blake Popular Quotes Tiger! Tiger! burning bright / In the forests of the night, / What immortal hand or eye / Could frame thy fearful symmetry? William Blake Tiger, tiger burning bright, In the forests of the night, What immortal hand or eye, Could frame thy fearful symmetry. William Blake To create a little flower is the labour of ages. William Blake Popular Quotes To generalize is to be an idiot. William Blake To me this world is all one continued vision of fancy or imagination, and I feel flattered when I am told so. What is it sets Homer, Virgil and Milton in so high a rank of art? Why is The Bible more entertaining and instructive than any other book? Is it not because they are addressed to the imagination, which is spiritual sensation, and but immediately to the understanding or reason? William Blake To open the Eternal Worlds, to open the immortal EyesOf Man inwards into the Worlds of Thought: into EternityEver expanding in the Bosom of God, the Human Imagination. William Blake Sayings To see a World in a Grain of Sand And a Heaven in a Wild Flower, Hold Infinity in the palm of your hand And Eternity in an hour. William Blake Quotations To see a world in a grain of sand And a heaven in a wild flower, Hold infinity in the palm of your hand And eternity in an hour. ot their name. William James's mysticism chapter from 'Varieties of Relligious Experience' may help here. William Blake To see a world in a grain of sand and heaven in a wild flower Hold infinity in the palms of your hand and eternity in an hour. William Blake To see a world in a grain of sand and heaven in a wild flower, Hold infinity in the palm of your hand and eternity in an hour. William Blake Sayings To see a world in a grain of sand, And a heaven in a wild flower, Hold infinity in the palm of your hand, And eternity in an hour. William Blake Adages Tools were made and born were hands; every farmer understands. William Blake Quotations Travelers repose and dream among my leaves. William Blake Popular Quotes Truth can never be told so as to be understood, and not be believed. William Blake Popular Quotes Truth lies within a little and certain compass, but error is immense. William Blake Truth that's told with bad intent Beats all the Lies you can invent. William Blake Wandering in many a coral grove, / Fair Nine, forsaking Poetry! William Blake 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 What is it men in women do require? The lineaments of Gratified Desire.What is it women do in men require? The lineaments of Gratified Desire. William Blake Sayings What is now proved was once imagined. William Blake What is now proved was once only imagined. William Blake Quotes What is the price of experience? Do men buy it for a song? Or wisdom for a dance in the street? No, it is bought with the price of all the man hath, his house, his wife, his children. William Blake Adages When a man has married a wife, he finds out whether / Her knees and elbows are only glued together. William Blake Adages When a sinister person means to be your enemy, they always start by trying to become your friend. William Blake Quotations When I saw that rage was vainAnd to sulk would nothing gain,Turning many a trick and wileI began to soothe and smile. William Blake Quotations When I tell any truth, it is not for the sake of convincing those who do not know it, but for the sake of defending those that do. William Blake When I tell the truth, it is not for the sake of convincing those who do not know it, but for the sake of defending those that do. William Blake Quotes When my mother died, I was very young, / And my father sold me while yet my tongue / Could scarcely cry `'weep! 'weep! 'weep! 'weep!' / So your chimneys I sweep, and in soot I sleep. William Blake Sayings When nations grow old, the arts grow cold and commerce settles on every tree. William Blake Quotations When the green woods laugh with the voice of joy. William Blake Popular Quotes When the stars threw down their spears, / And watered heaven with their tears, / Did he smile his work to see? / Did he who made the Lamb make thee? William Blake Remarks When the sun rises, do you not see a round disc of fire somewhat like a guinea? O no, no, I see an innumerable company of the heavenly host crying "Holy, Holy, Holy is the Lord God Almighty." William Blake Popular Quotes When the voices of children are heard on the green, / And laughing is heard on the hill, / My heart is at rest within my breast, / And everything else is still. William Blake When thou seest an eagle, thou seest a portion of genius; lift up thy head! William Blake Where Mercy, Love, and Pity dwell There God is dwelling too. William Blake Without contraries is no progression. William Blake You are forgiven for your happiness and your successes only if you generously consent to share them. William Blake You cannot have Liberty in this world without what you call Moral Virtue, and you cannot have Moral Virtue without the slavery of that half of the human race who hate what you call Moral Virtue. William Blake You never know what is enough, until you know what is more than enough. William Blake Quotations 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 You throw the sand against the windAnd the wind blows it back again. William Blake Quotes Your chimneys I sweep and in soot I sleep. William Blake `I have no name: / I am but two days old.' / What shall I call thee? / `I happy am, / Joy is my name.' / Sweet joy befall thee! William Blake `Pipe a song about a Lamb!' / So I piped with merry cheer. William Blake Popular Quotes