William Blake Quotes
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Jerusalem (1804) And did those feet in ancient time Walk upon England's mountains green And was the holy lamb of God On England's pleasant pastures seen And did the countenance divine Shine forth upon our clouded hills And was Jerusalem builded here Among those dark Satanic mills Bring me my bow of burning gold Bring me my arrows of desire Bring me my spears o'clouds unfold Bring me my chariot of fire I will not cease from mental fight Nor shall my sword sleep in my hand 'Til we have built Jerusalem In England's green and pleasant land.
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Opposition is true friendship.
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For Mercy has a human heart Pity, a human face: And Love, the human form divine, And Peace, the human dress.
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How can a bird that is born for joy Sit in a cage and sing?
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Pity would be no more, If we did not make somebody poor. Mercy no more could be, If all were happy as we.
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Kill not the moth nor butterfly, For the Last Judgement draweth nigh.
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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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All futurity seems teeming with endless destruction never to be repelled; Desperate remorse swallows the present in a quenchless rage.
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To me this world is all one continued vision of fancy or imagination, and I feel flattered when I am told so. What is it sets Homer, Virgil and Milton in so high a rank of art? Why is the Bible more entertaining and instructive than any other book? Is it not because they are addressed to the imagination, which is spiritual sensation, and but immediately to the understanding or reason?
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The world of imagination is the world of eternity. It is the divine bosom into which we shall all go after death of the vegetative body.
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I myself do nothing. The Holy Spirit accomplishes all through me.
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God keep me from the divinity of Yes and Nothe Yea Nay Creeping Jesus, from supposing Up and Down to be the same thing as allexperimentalists must suppose.
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And priests in black gowns were walking their rounds and binding with briars my joys and desires. (from 'The Garden of Love')
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Colouring does not depend on where the colours are put, but on where the lights and darks are put, and all depends on form and outline, on where that is put.
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Mercy, Pity, Peace Is the world's release.
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What has reason to do with the art of painting?
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Drive your cart and plow over the bones of the dead.
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The best wine is the oldest, the best water the newest.
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Some are born to sweet delight, Some are born to endless night.
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I have mental joys and mental health, Mental friends and mental wealth, I've a wife that I love and that loves me; I've all but riches bodily.
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For where'er the sun does shine, And where'er the rain does fall, Babe can never hunger there, Nor poverty the mind appall.
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As we are, so we see.
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I am in you and you in me, mutual in divine love.
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All wholesome food is caught without a net or trap.