William Blake Quotes
Top 100 wise famous quotes and sayings by William Blake
William Blake Famous Quotes & Sayings
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I must create a system, or be enslaved by another man's. I will not reason and compare: my business is to create.
Joy and woe are woven fine, a clothing for the soul divine. Under every grief and pine, runs a joy with silken twine.
I have no name: I am but two days old. What shall I call thee? I happy am, Joy is my name. Sweet joy befall thee!
England! awake! awake! awake! Jerusalem thy sister calls! Why wilt thou sleep the sleep of death And close her from thy ancient walls?
The busy bee has no time for sorrow. The hours of folly are measur'd by the clock, but of wisdom: no
When the voices of children are heard on the greenAnd laughing is heard on the hill,My heart is at rest within my breastAnd everything else is still.
I said: 'Thou thing of patches, rings,
Pins, necklaces and suchlike things,
Disguiser of the female form,
Thou paltry, gilded poisonous worm!
Pins, necklaces and suchlike things,
Disguiser of the female form,
Thou paltry, gilded poisonous worm!
All futurity seems teeming with endless destruction never to be repelled; Desperate remorse swallows the present in a quenchless rage.
There is a smile of love, And there is a smile of deceit, And there is a smile of smiles In which these two smiles meet.
To my eye Rubens' colouring is most contemptible. His shadows are a filthy brown somewhat the colour of excrement.
He loves to sit and hear me sing, Then, laughing, sports and plays with me; Then stretches out my golden wing, And mocks my loss of liberty.
Why a tender curb upon the youthful burning boy?
Why a little curtain of flesh on the bed of our desire?
Why a little curtain of flesh on the bed of our desire?
Bring me my bow of burning gold: Bring me my arrows of desire: Bring me my spear: O clouds, unfold! Bring me my chariot of fire.
And did the Countenance Divine,
Shine forth upon our clouded hills?
And was Jerusalem builded here,
Among these dark Satanic Mills?
Shine forth upon our clouded hills?
And was Jerusalem builded here,
Among these dark Satanic Mills?
Abstinence sows sand all over The ruddy limbs and flaming hair, But desire gratified Plants fruits of life and beauty there.
Arise you little glancing wings, and sing your infant joy!
Arise and drink your bliss, for every thing that lives is holy!
Arise and drink your bliss, for every thing that lives is holy!
Grown old in love from seven till seven times seven,I oft have wished for Hell for ease from Heaven.
But to go to school in a summer morn, O! It drives all joy away; Under a cruel eye outworn, The little ones spend the day In sighing and dismay.
Never seek to tell thy love; Love that never told can be. For the gentle wind does move silently.. invisibly.
And throughout all Eternity
I forgive you, you forgive me.
As our dear Redeemer said:
This the Wine, and this the Bread.
I forgive you, you forgive me.
As our dear Redeemer said:
This the Wine, and this the Bread.
The person who does not believe in miracles surely makes it certain that he or she will never take part in one.
And I made a rural pen, And I stained the water clear, And I wrote my happy songs Every Child may joy to hear.
And I watered it in fears,
Night and morning with my tears;
And I sunned it with smiles,
And with soft deceitful wiles.
Night and morning with my tears;
And I sunned it with smiles,
And with soft deceitful wiles.