William Blake quotes - page 6

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. (William Blake)
He who kisses joy as it flies by will live in eternity's sunrise. View quote
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I was walking among the fires of Hell, delighted with the enjoyments of Genius; which to Angels look like torment and insanity. View quote
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If you trap the moment before it's ripe, The tears of repentance you'll certainly wipe; But if once you let the ripe moment go You can never wipe off the tears of woe. View quote
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My Brother starv'd between two Walls, His Children's Cry my Soul appalls. View quote
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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? And did the Countenance Divine Shine forth upon our clouded hills? And was Jerusalem builded here Among these dark Satanic mills? 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! I will not cease from mental fight, Nor shall my sword sleep in my hand, Till we have built Jerusalem In England's green & pleasant land. View quote
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The Old and New Testaments are the great code of art. View quote
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Grown old in love from seven till seven times seven, I oft have wished for Hell for ease from Heaven. View quote
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My mother bore me in the southern wild, And I am black, but O! my soul is white; White as an angel is the English child, But I am black as if bereaved of light. View quote
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Every night, and every morn, Some to misery are born. Every morn, and every night, Some are born to sweet delight. Some are born to sweet delight. Some are born to endless night. View quote
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Love seeketh only Self to please, To bind another to its delight, Joys in another's loss of ease, And builds a hell in heaven's despite. (William Blake)
And throughout all eternity I forgive you, you forgive me. View quote
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Man was made for joy and woe, And when this we rightly know Through the world we safely go. Joy and woe are woven fine, A clothing for the soul divine. View quote
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To Mercy, Pity, Peace, and Love All pray in their distress; And to these virtues of delight Return their thankfulness. View quote
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Then cherish pity, lest you drive an angel from your door. View quote
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thus men forgot that all deities reside in the human breast. View quote
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Hear the voice of the Bard Who present, past, and future sees Whose ears have heard The Holy Word That walked among the ancient trees. View quote
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The Stolen and Perverted Writings of Homer & Ovid, of Plato & Cicero, which all men ought to contemn, are set up by artifice against the Sublime of the Bible. View quote
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This world of imagination is the world of eternity. View quote
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Acts themselves alone are history, and these are neither the exclusive property of Hume, Gibbon nor Voltaire, Echard, Rapin, Plutarch, nor Herodotus. Tell me the Acts, O historian, and leave me to reason upon them as I please; away with your reasoning and your rubbish. All that is not action is not worth reading. View quote
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Time is the mercy of Eternity; without Time's swiftness Which is the swiftest of all things, all were eternal torment. (William Blake)
Then old Nobodaddy aloft Farted and belched and coughed, And said, 'I love hanging and drawing and quartering Every bit as well as war and slaughtering.' View quote
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Jesus & his apostles & disciples were all artists. View quote
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My mother groaned my father wept. Into the dangerous world I leapt Helpless, naked, piping loud, Like a fiend hid in a cloud. View quote
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If you have formed a circle to go into, Go into it yourself and see how you would do. View quote
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