-
The pride of the peacock is the glory of God. The lust of the goat is the bounty of God. The wrath of the lion is the wisdom of God. The nakedness of woman is the work of God.
William Blake -
The crow wished everything was black, the Owl, that everything was white.
William Blake
-
Does a firm persuasion that a thing is so, make it so?" He replied, "All poets believe it does. And in ages of imagination, this firm persuasion removes mountains; but many are not capable of firm persuasion of anything.
William Blake -
A dead body revenges not injuries.
William Blake -
Execution is the chariot of genius.
William Blake -
He who has suffered you to impose on him knows you.
William Blake -
God forbid that Truth should be confined to Mathematical Demonstration!
William Blake -
In your own bosom you bear your heaven and earth, And all you behold, though it appears without, It is within, in your imagination, Of which this world of mortality is but a shadow.
William Blake
-
The Prophets Isaiah and Ezekiel dined with me, and I asked them how they dared so roundly to assert, that God spoke to them; and whether they did not think at the time, that they would be misunderstood, & so be the cause of imposition. Isaiah answer'd, I saw no God, nor heard any, in a finite organical perception; but my senses discover'd the infinite in every thing, and as I was then persuaded, & remain confirm'd; that the voice of honest indignation is the voice of God, I cared not for consequences but wrote.
William Blake -
As the caterpillar chooses the fairest leaves to lay her eggs on, so the priest lays his curse on the fairest joys.
William Blake -
Where mercy, love, and pity dwell, there God is dwelling too.
William Blake -
I have conversed with the spiritual Sun. I saw him on Primrose Hill.
William Blake -
The voice of honest indignation is the voice of God.
William Blake -
The child's toys and the old man's reasons are the fruits of two seasons.
William Blake
-
Tyger! Tyger! burning bright In the forests of the night, What immortal hand or eye Could frame thy fearful symmetry?
William Blake -
For everything exists and not one sigh nor smile nor tear, one hair nor particle of dust, not one can pass away.
William Blake -
You throw the sand against the wind and the wind blows it back again.
William Blake -
The lamb misused breeds public strife And yet forgives the butcher's knife.
William Blake -
Come o'er the eastern hills, and let our winds Kiss thy perfumed garments; let us taste Thy morn and evening breath; scatter thy pearls Upon our love-sick land that mourns for thee.
William Blake -
The strongest poison ever known came from Caesar's laurel crown.
William Blake
-
Grown old in love from seven till seven times seven, I oft have wished for Hell for ease from Heaven.
William Blake -
And I watered it in fears, Night and morning with my tears; And I sunned it with smiles, And with soft deceitful wiles.
William Blake -
Better to shun the bait than struggle in the snare.
William Blake -
Dip him in the river who loves water.
William Blake