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100 Inspirational Quotes By William Blake That Will Motivate You To Go For Your Goals

Famous As: English Poet Who is Considered a Seminal Figure in the History of the Poetry of the Romantic Age
Born On: November 28, 1757
Died On: August 12, 1827
Born In: London, England, United Kingdom
Died At Age: 69

William Blake was a renowned poet and print-maker from Britain. The London-born artist produced some of the greatest engravings of all time such as the Illustrations of the Book of Job. Here we bring to you interesting pieces of tidbits from the life of this famous artist. Blake recognized his calling since an early age and his parents were supportive of him. They sent Blake to Henry Pars’s Drawing School in London for formal training when William was only ten.

After drawing school, Blake apprenticed with James Basire, who taught him the ropes of engraving.

When he started out as a professional engraver, Blake would engrave copies of other artists work but eventually he progressed to developing his own designs.

While he spent most of his life in obscurity, Blake's engravings are now considered as prized possessions and are valued in millions. Not many know but Blake was also a mystic who experienced visions on several occasions. He once envisioned God “put his head to the window” and in another of his visions he saw his deceased brother’s “released spirit ascend heavenward through the matter-of-fact ceiling, ‘clapping its hands for joy.’”

In the segment below we bring to you inspirational quotes by the famous artist and poet William Blake.

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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.

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
A truth that's told with bad intent
Beats all the lies you can invent.

A truth that's told with bad intent Beats all the lies you can invent.

William Blake
If a thing loves, it is infinite.

If a thing loves, it is infinite.

William Blake
Tyger! Tyger! burning bright 
In the forests of the night, 
What immortal hand or eye 
Could frame thy fearful symmetry?

Tyger! Tyger! burning bright In the forests of the night, What immortal hand or eye Could frame thy fearful symmetry?

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 thro' narrow chinks of his cavern.

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 thro' narrow chinks of his cavern.

William Blake
Those who restrain desire do so because theirs is weak enough to be restrained.

Those who restrain desire do so because theirs is weak enough to be restrained.

William Blake
What is now proved was once only imagined.

What is now proved was once only imagined.

William Blake
The imagination is not a state: it is the human existence itself.

The imagination is not a state: it is the human existence itself.

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.

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
The man who never alters his opinion is like standing water, and breeds reptiles of the mind.

The man who never alters his opinion is like standing water, and breeds reptiles of the mind.

William Blake
The road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom.

The road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom.

William Blake
To generalize is to be an idiot.

To generalize is to be an idiot.

William Blake
In the universe, there are things that are known, and things that are unknown, and in between, there are doors.

In the universe, there are things that are known, and things that are unknown, and in between, there are doors.

William Blake
The glory of Christianity is to conquer by forgiveness.

The glory of Christianity is to conquer by forgiveness.

William Blake
Eternity is in love with the productions of time.

Eternity is in love with the productions of time.

William Blake
You never know what is enough unless you know what is more than enough.

You never know what is enough unless you know what is more than enough.

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.

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
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.

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
Truth can never be told so as to be understood and not be believed.

Truth can never be told so as to be understood and not be believed.

William Blake
He who kisses joy as it flies by will live in eternity's sunrise.

He who kisses joy as it flies by will live in eternity's sunrise.

William Blake
For all eternity, I forgive you and you forgive me.

For all eternity, I forgive you and you forgive me.

William Blake
I was walking among the fires of Hell, delighted with the enjoyments of Genius; which to Angels look like torment and insanity.

I was walking among the fires of Hell, delighted with the enjoyments of Genius; which to Angels look like torment and insanity.

William Blake
He whose face gives no light, shall never become a star.

He whose face gives no light, shall never become a star.

William Blake
Without contraries is no progression. Attraction and repulsion, reason and energy, love and hate, are necessary to human existence.

Without contraries is no progression. Attraction and repulsion, reason and energy, love and hate, are necessary to human existence.

William Blake
A man can't soar too high, when he flies with his own wings.

A man can't soar too high, when he flies with his own wings.

William Blake
If the doors of perception were cleansed, everything would appear to man as it is - infinite.

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

William Blake
My mother groaned, my father wept,
into the dangerous world I leapt.

My mother groaned, my father wept, into the dangerous world I leapt.

William Blake
Excessive sorrow laughs. Excessive joy weeps.

Excessive sorrow laughs. Excessive joy weeps.

William Blake
Improvement makes strait roads, but the crooked roads without Improvement, are roads of Genius.

Improvement makes strait roads, but the crooked roads without Improvement, are roads of Genius.

William Blake
Great things are done when men and mountains meet.

Great things are done when men and mountains meet.

William Blake