William Blake Quotes - Page 11

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• The Bat that flits at close of Eve
  Has left the Brain that won't believe.
  The Owl that calls upon the Night
  Speaks the Unbeliever's fright.

  William Blake

  Believe, Night, Scary

  'Auguries of Innocence' (c.1803) l. 25

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• Lo! now the direful monster, whose skin clings
  To his strong bones, strides o'er the groaning rocks:
  He withers all in silence, and his hand
  Unclothes the earth, and freezes up frail life.

  William Blake

  Strong, Winter, Rocks

  William Blake (2005). “Collected Poems”, p.5, Routledge

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• Poetry fettered, fetters the human race. Nations are destroyed or flourish in proportion as their poetry, painting, and music are destroyed or flourish.

  William Blake

  Race, Painting, Proportion

  William Blake (2005). “Collected Poems”, p.201, Routledge

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• There can be no Good Will. Will is always Evil; it is persecution to others or selfishness.

  William Blake

  Evil, Selfishness, Persecution

  William Blake (1980). “Œuvres de William Blake”

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• Jesus & his apostles & disciples were all artists

  William Blake

  Jesus, Artist, Disciple

  William Blake, Robert N. Essick, Joseph Viscomi (1998). “Milton a Poem, and the Final Illuminated Works: The Ghost of Abel, On Homers Poetry, [and] On Virgil, Laocoön”, p.232, Princeton University Press

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• To Mercy Pity Peace and Love All pray in their distress, And to these virtues of delight Return their thankfulness. For Mercy Pity Peace and Love Is God our father dear. And Mercy Pity Peace and Love Is Man his child and care. Then every man of every clime That prays in his distress Prays to the human form divine: Love Mercy Pity Peace. And all must love the human form In heathen, Turk, or Jew. Where Mercy, Love and Pity dwell There God is dwelling too.

  William Blake

  Love, Peace, Children

  William Blake (2017). “Songs of Innocence and Experience”, p.17, BookRix

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• The Whole Business of Man is The Arts, & All Things Common.

  William Blake

  Art, Business, Men

  William Blake (1966). “Complete Writings: With Variant Readings”, p.777, Oxford University Press, USA

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• Truth can never be told so as to be understood and not be believed.

  William Blake

  Truth, Belief, Understood

  'The Marriage of Heaven and Hell' (1790-3) 'Proverbs of Hell'

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• Knowledge of ideal beauty is not to be acquired. It is born with us. Innate ideas are in every man, born with him; theyare truly himself.

  William Blake

  Men, Ideas, Born

  William Blake (1966). “Complete Writings: With Variant Readings”, p.459, Oxford University Press, USA

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• To create a little flower is the labour of ages.

  William Blake

  Happiness, Art, Nature

  William Blake (2005). “Collected Poems”, p.167, Routledge

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• Travelers repose and dream among my leaves.

  William Blake

  Dream, Travel, Journey

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• Both read the Bible day and night, but thou read black where I read white.

  William Blake

  Bible, Artist, Night

  William Blake, “The Everlasting Gospel”

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• If the doors of perception were cleansed everything would appear to man as it is, infinite.
  For man has closed himself up, till he sees all things thru chinks of his cavern.

  William Blake

  Beautiful, Eye, Men

  "A Memorable Fancy". "The Marriage of Heaven and Hell". Book by William Blake, www.bartleby.com. 1793.

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• To the eyes of a miser a guinea is more beautiful than the sun, and a bag worn with the use of money has more beautiful proportions than a vine filled with grapes.

  William Blake

  Beautiful, Money, Eye

  William Blake (2008). “The Complete Poetry and Prose of William Blake”, p.702, Univ of California Press

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• It is the greatest of crimes to depress true art and science.

  William Blake

  Depressing, Art, Science

  William Blake (1977). “The Portable William Blake”, p.169, Penguin

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• Nature in darkness groans and men are bound to sullen contemplation in the night: restless they turn on beds of sorrow; in their inmost brain feeling the crushing wheels, they rise, they write the bitter words of stern philosophy and knead the bread of knowledge with tears and groans.

  William Blake

  Crush, Philosophy, Writing

  William Blake (1966). “Complete Writings: With Variant Readings”, p.379, Oxford University Press, USA

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• I am really sorry to see my countrymen trouble themselves about politics. If men were wise, the most arbitrary princes could not hurt them. If they are not wise, the freest government is compelled to be a tyranny. Princes appear to me to be fools. Houses of Commons and Houses of Lords appear to me to be fools; they seem to me to be something else besides human life.

  William Blake

  Wise, Hurt, Sorry

  William Blake (1988). “William Blake”, Oxford University Press, USA

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• The cistern contains: The fountain overflows.

  William Blake

  God, Fountain, Overflow

  William Blake, William Butler Yeats (2002). “Collected Poems”, p.166, Psychology Press

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• What is a wife and what is a harlot? What is a church and what is a theatre? are they two and not one? Can they exist separate? Are not religion and politics the same thing? Brotherhood is religion. O demonstrations of reason dividing families in cruelty and pride!

  William Blake

  Pride, Two, Wife

  William Blake (1964). “Jerusalem: A Simplified Version”

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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?

  William Blake

  Stars, Heaven, Tears

  Songs of Experience "The Tiger" (1794)

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• The child's toys and the old man's reasons are the fruits of two seasons.

  William Blake

  Children, Men, Two

  William Blake (1868). “Songs of Innocence and of Experience, Showing the Two Contrary States of the Human Soul”, p.99

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• I thought Love lived in the hot sunshine,
  But O, he lives in the moony light!
  I thought to find Love in the heat of day,
  But sweet Love is the comforter of night.

  William Blake

  Sweet, Inspirational Love, Sunshine

  William Blake (2005). “Collected Poems”, p.129, Routledge

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• The Sick Rose O Rose, thou art sick. The invisible worm That flies in the night In the howling storm Has found out thy bed Of crimson joy, And his dark secret love Does thy life destroy.

  William Blake

  Life, Art, Dark

  'Songs of Experience' (1794) 'The Sick Rose'

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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?

  William Blake

  Sympathy, Peace, Grief

  'Songs of Innocence' (1789) 'On Another's Sorrow'

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• Sooner strangle an infant in its cradle than nurse unacted desires.

  William Blake

  Nurse, Desire, Criminal Mind

  William Blake, “The Marriage Of Heaven And Hell”

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