Sourced and curated.

The road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom.

The Marriage of Heaven and Hell · 1793

★ 7.3

Everything that lives, Lives not alone, nor for itself.

1789

★ 7.2

Great things are done when men and mountains meet.

1807

★ 7.2

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

Auguries of Innocence · 1803

★ 7.0

The cistern contains: the fountain overflows.

The Marriage of Heaven and Hell · 1794

★ 5.5

For every thing that lives is Holy.

The Marriage of Heaven and Hell · 1794

★ 5.5

Can I see another's woe, And not be in sorrows too? Can I see another's grief, And not seek for kind relief?

Songs of Innocence · 1789

★ 5.5

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.

Songs of Experience · 1794

★ 5.5

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.

Songs of Experience · 1794

★ 5.5

And throughout all eternity I forgive you, you forgive me.

1804

★ 5.5

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.

1792

★ 5.4

Love to faults is always blind, Always is to joy inclin'd, Lawless, wing'd, and unconfin'd, And breaks all chains from every mind.

1792

★ 5.4

Man was made for joy and woe, And when this we rightly know Through the world we safely go.

1805

★ 5.4

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.

1792

★ 5.3

If the fool would persist in his folly he would become wise.

The Marriage of Heaven and Hell · 1793

★ 3.9

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

Intuition of truth, not preceded by perceptible meditation, is genius.

The Marriage of Heaven and Hell · 1794

★ 3.9

1788

★ 3.8

And we are put on earth a little space, That we may learn to bear the beams of love.

Songs of Innocence · 1789

★ 3.8

Exuberance is beauty.

The Marriage of Heaven and Hell · 1793

★ 3.8

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

The Marriage of Heaven and Hell · 1793

★ 3.8

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

The Marriage of Heaven and Hell · 1793

★ 3.8

Love seeketh only self to please, To bind another to its delight, Joys in another's loss of ease, And builds a Hell in Heaven's despite.

Songs of Experience · 1794

★ 3.8

A Truth that's told with bad intent Beats all the Lies you can invent

Auguries of Innocence · 1803

★ 3.8

It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend.

1815

★ 3.8

The vision of Christ that thou dost see Is my vision's greatest enemy.

The Everlasting Gospel · 1818

★ 3.8

Wisdom is sold in the desolate market where none come to purchase.

1827

★ 3.8

Abstinence sows sand all over The ruddy limbs and flaming hair, But Desire gratified Plants fruits of life and beauty there.

1792

★ 3.7

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

The tree which moves some to tears of joy is in the eyes of others only a green thing that stands in the way.

The Marriage of Heaven and Hell · 1793

★ 3.7

Letter

1799

★ 3.7

There is a smile of love, And there is a smile of deceit, And there is a smile of smiles In which these two smiles meet.

1805

★ 3.7

The atoms of Democritus And Newton’s particles of light Are sands upon the Red Sea shore, Where Israel’s tents do shine so bright.

1807

★ 3.7

Never pain to tell thy love Love that never told can be For the gentle wind does move Silently invisibly

1807

★ 3.7

Both read the Bible day and night, But thou read'st black where I read white.

The Everlasting Gospel · 1818

★ 3.7

Never seek to tell thy love Love that never told can be; For the gentle wind does move Silently, invisibly. I told my love, I told my love, I told her all my heart; Trembling, cold, in ghastly fears - Ah, she doth depart.

1792

★ 3.6

The moon like a flower In heaven's high bower, With silent delight, Sits and smiles on the night.

Songs of Innocence · 1789

★ 2.1

Think in the morning. Act in the noon. Eat in the evening. Sleep in the night.

The Marriage of Heaven and Hell · 1794

★ 2.1

Little Lamb, who made thee? Dost thou know who made thee? Gave thee life and bid the feed By the stream and o'er the mead; Gave thee clothing of delight, Softest clothing, wooly, bright.

Songs of Innocence · 1789

★ 2.0

Tyger! Tyger! burning bright In the forests of the night, What immortal hand or eye Could frame thy fearful symmetry? In what distant deeps or skies Burnt the fire of thine eyes? On what wings dare he aspire? What the hand dare seize the fire?

Songs of Experience · 1794

★ 2.0

Little Fly, Thy summer's play My thoughtless hand Has brushed away. Am not I A fly like thee? Or art not thou A man like me? For I dance And drink and sing, Till some blind hand Shall brush my wing.