William Blake quotes - page 4

The cistern contains: the fountain overflows. (William Blake)
Does the Eagle know what is in the pit Or wilt thou go ask the Mole Can Wisdom be put in a silver rod, Or Love in a golden bowl.
William Blake
All wholsom food is caught without a net or a trap.
William Blake
The most sublime act is to set another before you.
William Blake
The soul of sweet delight can never be defil'd.
William Blake
I must create a system or be enslaved by another man's.
William Blake
I myself do nothing. The Holy Spirit accomplishes all through me.
William Blake
For mercy has a human heart, pity a human face, and love, the human form divine, and peace, the human dress.
William Blake
The glory of Christianity is to conquer by forgiveness.
William Blake
Imagination is the real and eternal world of which this vegetable universe is but a faint shadow.
William Blake
When a sinister person means to be your enemy, they always start by trying to become your friend. (William Blake)
The eye altering, alters all.
William Blake
To generalize is to be an idiot. To particularize is the alone distinction of merit. General knowledge are those knowledge that idiots possess.
William Blake
Nothing can be more contemptible than to suppose Public Records to be true.
William Blake
For everything that lives is holy, life delights in life.
William Blake
Both read the Bible day and night, but thou read black where I read white.
William Blake
He who shall teach the child to doubt The rotting grave shall ne'er get out.
William Blake
The pride of the peacock is the glory of God. The lust of the goat is the bounty of God. The wrath of the lion is the wisdom of God. The nakedness of woman is the work of God.
William Blake
What is it men in women do require The lineaments of gratified desire. What is it women do in men require The lineaments of gratified desire.
William Blake
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
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)
Pity would be no more If we did not make somebody poor And Mercy no more could be If all were as happy as we.
William Blake
Piping down the valleys wild, Piping songs of pleasant glee, On a cloud I saw a child, And he laughing said to me 'Pipe a song about a Lamb.' So I piped with merry cheer 'Piper, pipe that song again.' So I piped he wept to hear.
William Blake
When my mother died, I was very young, And my father sold me while yet my tongue Could scarcely cry 'weep 'weep 'weep 'weep' So your chimneys I sweep, and in soot I sleep.
William Blake
For everything exists and not one sigh nor smile nor tear, one hair nor particle of dust, not one can pass away.
William Blake