William Blake

7 Quotes

Quotes by William Blake

1

Gratitude is heaven itself; there could be no heaven without it.

The Marriage of Heaven and Hell, 1790–93
2

Those who enter the gates of heaven are not beings who have no passions or who have curbed the passions, but those who have cultivated an understanding of them.

3

The tigers of wrath are wiser than the horses of instruction.

4

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.

5

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

6

He who binds to himself a Joy, Does the winged life destroy; He who kisses the Joy as it flies, Lives in Eternity's sunrise.

7

Enlightenment means taking full responsibility for your life.