William Blake Quotes - Page 17

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• Why a tender curb upon the youthful burning boy?
  Why a little curtain of flesh on the bed of our desire?

  William Blake

  Boys, Desire, Bed

  William Blake, David Fuller (2000). “William Blake: Selected Poetry and Prose”, p.120, Pearson Education

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• Since the French Revolution Englishmen are all intermeasurable one by another, certainly a happy state of agreement to which I forone do not agree.

  William Blake

  Agreement, Revolution, England

  William Blake (2008). “The Complete Poetry and Prose of William Blake”, p.783, Univ of California Press

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• The vision of Christ that thou dost see Is my vision's greatest enemy.

  William Blake

  Enemy, Vision, Christ

  'The Everlasting Gospel' (c.1818) (a) l. 1

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• Praises reap not! Joys laugh not! Sorrows weep not!

  William Blake

  Laughing, Joy, Sorrow

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

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• The mocker of Art is the mocker of Jesus.

  William Blake

  Jesus, Art, Art Is

  William Blake (2008). “The Complete Poetry and Prose of William Blake”, p.767, Univ of California Press

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• 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?

  William Blake

  Time, Feet, Mountain

  Milton preface (1804 - 1810)

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• The lust of the goat is the bounty of God.

  William Blake

  Lust, Goats, Glory Of God

  The Marriage of Heaven and Hell "Proverbs of Hell" (1790 - 1793)

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• God and His Priest and King,...make up a heaven of our misery.

  William Blake

  Kings, Heaven, Misery

  William Blake, W. H. Stevenson (2007). “Blake: The Complete Poems”, p.170, Pearson Education

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• How do you know but ev’ry Bird that cuts the airy way, Is an immense world of delight, clos’d by your senses five?

  William Blake

  Cutting, Bird, Delight

  William Blake (1975). “The Marriage of Heaven and Hell”, p.51, Oxford Paperbacks

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• The stars are threshed, and the souls are threshed from their husks.

  William Blake

  Stars, Soul

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• For everything exists and not one sigh nor smile nor tear, one hair nor particle of dust, not one can pass away.

  William Blake

  Truth, Hair, Dust

  William Blake, W. H. Stevenson (2007). “Blake: The Complete Poems”, p.686, Pearson Education

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• The reason Milton wrote in fetters when he wrote of Angels and God, and at liberty when of Devils and Hell, is because he was a true poet and of the Devil's party without knowing it.

  William Blake

  Party, Angel, Knowing

  The Marriage of Heaven and Hell "The Voice of the Devil" (note) (1790 - 1793)

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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!

  William Blake

  Mother, Children, Father

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

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• O Winter! bar thine adamantine doors: The north is thine; there hast thou build thy dark, Deep-founded habitation. Shake not thy roofs, Nor bend thy pillars with thine iron car.

  William Blake

  Dark, Winter, Doors

  William Blake (1953). “Selected poetry and prose”, Random House Inc

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• My silks and fine array, My smiles and languished air, By love are driv'n away And mournful lean Despair Brings me yew to deck my grave: Such end true lovers have.

  William Blake

  Love, Air, Yew

  William Blake (2008). “The Complete Poetry and Prose of William Blake”, p.413, Univ of California Press

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• A skylark wounded in the wing, / A cherubim does cease to sing.

  William Blake

  Wings, Singing, Doe

  'Auguries of Innocence' (c.1803) l. 9

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• When a Man has Married a WifeHe finds out whetherHer Knees & elbows are onlyglued together.

  William Blake

  Men, Together, Elbows

  William Blake (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of William Blake (Illustrated)”, p.804, Delphi Classics

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• In every cry of every man,
  In every infant's cry of fear,
  In every voice, in every ban,
  The mind-forg'd manacles I hear.

  William Blake

  Men, Voice, Mind

  William Blake, Andrew Lincoln (1991). “Songs of Innocence and of Experience”, p.193, Princeton University Press

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• 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!

  William Blake

  Happiness, Baby, Sweet

  William Blake (1977). “The Portable William Blake”, p.71, Penguin

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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')

  William Blake

  Garden, Joy, Black

  William Blake (2005). “Collected Poems”, p.75, Routledge

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• Like a fiend in a cloud,
  With howling woe,
  After night I do crowd,
  And with night will go;
  I turn my back to the east,
  From whence comforts have increased;
  For light doth seize my brain
  With frantic pain.

  William Blake

  Pain, Night, Clouds

  "Poetical Sketches". Book by William Blake, 1783.

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• Thou fair-hair'd angel of the evening, Now, whilst the sun rests on the mountains, light Thy bright torch of love; thy radiant crown Put on, and smile upon our evening bed!

  William Blake

  Angel, Light, Hair

  William Blake (1783). “Poetical Sketches”, p.5

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• Imitation is criticism.

  William Blake

  Criticism, Artistic, Imitation

  William Blake (1966). “Complete Writings: With Variant Readings”, p.453, Oxford University Press, USA

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• Works of Art can only be produc'd in Perfection where the Man is either in Affluence or is Above the Care of it.

  William Blake

  Art, Men, Perfection

  William Blake (1977). “The Portable William Blake”, p.451, Penguin

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• Little Lamb, who made thee? Dost thou know who made thee?

  William Blake

  Sheep, Lambs, Littles

  'Songs of Innocence' (1789) 'The Lamb'

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