1757-1827, British Poet, Painter
Exuberance is beauty.
William Blake – [Beauty]

For everything exists and not one sigh nor smile nor tear, one hair nor particle of dust, not one can pass away.
William Blake – [Truth]

For everything that lives is holy, life delights in life.
William Blake – [Life and Living]

Fun I love, but too much fun is of all things the most loathsome. Mirth is better than fun, and happiness is better than mirth.
William Blake – [Fun]

Great things are done when men and mountains meet. This is not done by jostling in the street.
William Blake – [Challenges]

He who binds to himself a joy doth the winged life destroy. But he who kisses the joy as it flies lives in Eternity's sunrise.
William Blake – [Joy]

He who desires but does not act, breeds pestilence.
William Blake – [Desire]

He who would do good to another must do it in Minute Particulars: general Good is the plea of the scoundrel, hypocrite, and flatterer, for Art and Science cannot exist but in minutely organized Particulars.
William Blake – [Altruism]

He whose face gives no light, shall never become a star.
William Blake – [Stardom]

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 – [Politicians and Politics]

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 – [Babies]

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 – [Creativity]

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 – [Perspective]

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 – [Resentment]

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 – [Perception]

If the Sun and Moon should ever doubt, they'd immediately go out.
William Blake – [Doubt]

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 – [Angels]

Joys impregnate. Sorrows bring forth.
William Blake – [Sorrow]

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]

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 – [Heaven]

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