William Blake Quotes
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Can I see another's woe, And not be in sorrow too? Can I see another's grief, And not seek for kind relief? Can I see a falling tear, And not feel my sorrow's share? Can a father see his child Weep, nor be with sorrow filled? Can a mother sit and hear An infant groan, an infant fear? No, no! never can it be! Never, never can it be!
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When the voices of children are heard on the green And laughing is heard on the hill, My heart is at rest within my breast And everything else is still.
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Energy is the only life, and is from the body; and reason is the bound or outward circumference of energy. Energy is eternal delight.
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It is the greatest of crimes to depress true art and science.
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But if at church they would give some ale. And a pleasant fire our souls to regale. We'd sing and we'd pray all the live long day, Nor ever once from the church to stray.
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Sleep, sleep, beauty bright,Dreaming o'er the joys of night.Sleep, sleep: in thy sleepLittle sorrows sit and weep.
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Can I see another's woe, and not be in sorrow too? Can I see another's grief, and not seek for kind relief?
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On no other ground Can I sow my seed Without tearing up Some stinking weed.
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O God, protect me from my friends, that they have not power over me. Thou hast giv'n me power to protect myself from thy bitterest enemies.
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The generations of men run on in the tide of time, but leave their destined lineaments permanent for ever and ever.
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He who sees the Infinite in all things sees God.
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Some say that happiness is not good for mortals, & they ought to be answered that sorrow is not fit for immortals & is utterly useless to any one; a blight never does good to a tree, & if a blight kill not a tree but it still bear fruit, let none say that the fruit was in consequence of the blight.
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I rest not from my great task! | To open the Eternal Worlds, | to open the immortal Eyes of Man | Inwards into the Worlds of Thought; | Into eternity, ever expanding | In the Bosom of God, | The Human Imagination
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He who would do good to another must do it in Minute Particulars: general Good is the plea of the scoundrel, hypocrite, and flatterer, for Art and Science cannot exist but in minutely organized Particulars.
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Then the Parson might preach, & drink, & sing, And we'd be as happy as birds in the spring; And modest dame Lurch, who is always at Church, Would not have bandy children, nor fasting, nor birch.
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He who pretends to be either painter or engraver without being a master of drawing is an imposter.
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God is the poetic genius in each of us.
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Mere enthusiasm is the all in all... / Passion and expression are beauty itself.
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Heaven is in a grain of sand.
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A fool sees not the same tree that a wise man sees.
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I see through my eyes, not with them.
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The little ones leaped, and shouted, and laugh'd And all the hills echoed.
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Children of the future age Reading this indignant page Know that in a former time Love, sweet love, was thought a crime.
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The tigers of wrath are wiser than the horses of instruction.