William Blake Quotes
Men are admitted into heaven not because they have curbed or governed their passions, but because they have cultivate their understandings.
Quotes to Explore
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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.
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The crow wished everything was black, the Owl, that everything was white.
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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.
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Execution is the chariot of genius.
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He who has suffered you to impose on him knows you.
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God forbid that Truth should be confined to Mathematical Demonstration!
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A dead body revenges not injuries.
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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.
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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.
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As the caterpillar chooses the fairest leaves to lay her eggs on, so the priest lays his curse on the fairest joys.
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Where mercy, love, and pity dwell, there God is dwelling too.
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I have conversed with the spiritual Sun. I saw him on Primrose Hill.
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The voice of honest indignation is the voice of God.
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The child's toys and the old man's reasons are the fruits of two seasons.
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Tyger! Tyger! burning bright In the forests of the night, What immortal hand or eye Could frame thy fearful symmetry?
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For everything exists and not one sigh nor smile nor tear, one hair nor particle of dust, not one can pass away.
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You throw the sand against the wind and the wind blows it back again.
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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.
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The lamb misused breeds public strife And yet forgives the butcher's knife.
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Better to shun the bait than struggle in the snare.
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Grown old in love from seven till seven times seven, I oft have wished for Hell for ease from Heaven.
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The strongest poison ever known came from Caesar's laurel crown.
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And I watered it in fears, Night and morning with my tears; And I sunned it with smiles, And with soft deceitful wiles.
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The Angel that presided o'er my birth Said, 'Little creature, formed of joy and mirth, Go love without the help of any thing on earth'.