William Blake Quotes
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LOVE'S SECRET Never seek to tell thy love, Love that never told can be; For the gentle wind doth move Silently, invisibly. I told my love, I told my love, I told her all my heart, Trembling, cold, in ghastly fears. Ah! she did depart! Soon after she was gone from me, A traveller came by, Silently, invisibly: He took her with a sigh.
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Every thing possible to be believ'd is an image of truth.
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Hindsight is a wonderful thing but foresight is better, especially when it comes to saving life, or some pain!
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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.
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The vision of Christ that thou dost see Is my vision's greatest enemy.
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Nothing is real beyond imaginative patterns men make of reality.
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To see a world in a grain of sand and a heaven in a wildflower.
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One law for the lion and ox is oppression.
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Energy is eternal delight.
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Mere enthusiasm is the all in all... / Passion and expression are beauty itself.
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Wisdom is sold in a desolate marketplace where none can come to buy.
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My mother bore me in the southern wild, And I am black, but O! my soul is white; White as an angel is the English child, But I am black as if bereaved of light.
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The moon, like a flower in heaven's high bower, with silent delight sits and smiles on the night.
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He who wants, but doesn't act, is a pest.
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Oh! why was I born with a different face? why was I not born like the rest of my race? when I look,each one starts! when I speak, I offend; then Im silent & passive & lose every friend. Then my verse I dishonour, my pictures despise, my person degrade & my temper chastise; and the pen is my terror, the pencil my shame; all my talents I bury, and dead is my fame. Im either too low or too highly prized; when elate I m envy'd, when meek Im despis'd.
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Although wine when it is read somewhat lacks the savour of wine when it is drunk, wine remains a very pleasant thing both to read about and to chat about.
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When the stars threw down their spears, and watered heaven with their tears, did he smile his work to see? Did he who made the Lamb make thee?
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He who replies to words of doubt doth put the light of knowledge out.
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Mutual forgiveness of each vice. Such are the Gates of Paradise.
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I see the Past, Present & Future existing all at once Before me.
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Bring me an axe and spade, Bring me a winding-sheet; When I my grave have made Let winds and tempests beat: Then down I'll lie as cold as clay. True love doth pass away!
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Ah, sunflower, weary of time, Who countest the steps of the sun, Seeking after that sweet golden clime Where the traveller's journey is done; Where the youth pined away with desire And the pale virgin shrouded in snow Arise from their graves, and aspire Where my sunflower wishes to go.
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Shame is pride's cloak.
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The man who never alters his opinions is like standing water, and breeds reptiles of the mind.