Quote

Gratitude, in itself, is heaven.

William Blake

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

William Blake
Age: 69 †
Born: 1757
Born: November 28
Died: 1827
Died: August 12
Collector
Engraver
Graphic Artist
Illustrator
Lithographer
Painter
Philosopher
Poet
Printer
Theologian
London
England
W. Blake
Uil'iam Bleik
Blake
Gratitude
Heaven

More quotes by William Blake

Image
Where lambs have nibbled, silent moves the feet of angels bright unseen they pour blessing, and joy without ceasing, on each bud and blossom, and each sleeping bosom.
William Blake
Image
Mere enthusiasm is the all in all... / Passion and expression are beauty itself.
William Blake
Image
Everything is beautiful in its own way. Exuberance is beauty.
William Blake
Image
What is a wife and what is a harlot? What is a church and what is a theatre? are they two and not one? Can they exist separate? Are not religion and politics the same thing? Brotherhood is religion. O demonstrations of reason dividing families in cruelty and pride!
William Blake
Image
Without contraries is no progression. Attraction and repulsion, reason and energy, love and hate, are necessary to human existence.
William Blake
Image
Piping down the valleys wild, Piping songs of pleasant glee, On a cloud I saw a child, And he laughing said to me: Pipe a song about a Lamb. So I piped with merry cheer Piper, pipe that song again. So I piped he wept to hear.
William Blake
Image
O thou who passest through our valleys in Thy strength, curb thy fierce steeds, allay the heat That flames from their large nostrils! Thou, O Summer, Oft pitchest here thy golden tent, and oft Beneath our oaks hast slept, while we beheld With joy thy ruddy limbs and flourishing hair.
William Blake
Image
Those who restrain their desires, do so because theirs is weak enough to be restrained.
William Blake
Image
I must create a system or be enslaved by another mans I will not reason and compare: my business is to create.
William Blake
Image
Little Lamb, who made thee? Dost thou know who made thee?
William Blake
Image
How do you know but ev’ry Bird that cuts the airy way, Is an immense world of delight, clos’d by your senses five?
William Blake
Image
Prisons are built with stones of Law. Brothels with the bricks of religion.
William Blake
Image
Every thing possible to be believ'd is an image of truth.
William Blake
Image
The person who does not believe in miracles surely makes it certain that he or she will never take part in one.
William Blake
Image
Both read the Bible day and night, but thou read black where I read white.
William Blake
Image
He who pretends to be either painter or engraver without being a master of drawing is an imposter.
William Blake
Image
It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend.
William Blake
Image
My mother groaned, my father wept, into the dangerous world I leapt.
William Blake
Image
The Britons (say historians) were naked, civilized men, learned, studious, abstruse in thought and contemplation naked, simple, plain in their acts and manners wiser than after ages.
William Blake
Image
Shame is pride's cloak.
William Blake