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William Blake Quotes - Page 15

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How have you left the ancient love That bards of old enjoyed in you! The languid strings do scarcely move! The sound is forced, the notes are few!

How have you left the ancient love That bards of old enjoyed in you! The languid strings do scarcely move! The sound is forced, the notes are few!

Love, Moving, Sound

William Blake (2005). “Collected Poems”, p.12, Routledge

What has reasoning to do with painting?

Painting, Reasoning

The apple tree never asks the beech how he shall grow, nor the lion, the horse, how he shall take his prey.

Horse, Apples, Tree

William Blake (1977). “The Portable William Blake”, p.185, Penguin

I am going to that country which I have all my life wished to see.

Death, Country

A musician, an artist, an architect: the man or woman who is not one of these is not a Christian.

Music, Christian, Artist

William Blake, David Fuller (2000). “William Blake: Selected Poetry and Prose”, p.362, Pearson Education

If you have form'd a circle to go into, Go into it yourself, and see how you would do. They said this mystery never shall cease: The priest promotes war, and the soldier peace.

War, Circles, Soldier

William Blake (2000). “The Selected Poems of William Blake”, p.151, Wordsworth Editions

Rome & Greece swept Art into their maw & destroy'd it; a Warlike State never can produce Art. It will Rob & Plunder & accumulate into one place, & Translate & Copy & Buy & Sell & Criticize, but not Make.

Art, Rome, States

He who replies to words of doubt doth put the light of knowledge out.

Light, Doubt

William Blake (2005). “Collected Poems”, p.96, Routledge

General good is the plea of the scoundrel, hypocite, flatterer.

Hypocrite, Scoundrels, Organized

Painters are noted for being dissipated and wild.

Painter

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

Auguries of innocence "The emmet's inch and eagle's mile Make lame philosophy to smile. He who doubts from what he sees Will ne'er believe, do what you please.

Philosophy, Believe, Eagles

William Blake, Michael Mason (1998). “Selected Poetry”, p.175, Oxford University Press, USA

All the destruction in Christian Europe has arisen from deism, which is natural religion.

Christian, Europe, Natural

William Blake (2008). “The Complete Poetry and Prose of William Blake”, p.201, Univ of California Press

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.

Love, Peace, Children

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

The Man who pretends to be a modest enquirer into the truth of a self-evident thing is a Knave.

Men, Self, Knaves

William Blake (1966). “Complete Writings: With Variant Readings”, p.386, Oxford University Press, USA

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.

Reading, Rubbish, Action

William Blake (1966). “Complete Writings: With Variant Readings”, p.579, Oxford University Press, USA

The wrath of the lion is the wisdom of God.

Wrath, Lions, Glory Of God

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

Rhetoric completes the tools of learning. Dialectic zeros in on the logic of things, of particular systems of thought or subjects. Rhetoric takes the next grand step and brings all these subjects together into one whole.

Together, Steps, Tools

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

Children, Men, Two

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

The pure soul shall mount on native wings, . . . and cut a path into the heaven of glory.

Cutting, Wings, Heaven

William Blake (2005). “Collected Poems”, p.34, Routledge

Men are admitted into heaven not because they have curbed or governed their passions, but because they have cultivate their understandings.

Passion, Men, Heaven

William Blake, David Fuller (2000). “William Blake: Selected Poetry and Prose”, p.208, Pearson Education

To Mercy, Pity, Peace and Love All pray in their distress, And to these virtues of delight Return their thankfulness.

Gratitude, Thankfulness, And Love

'Songs of Innocence' (1789) 'The Divine Image'

But if at church they would give some ale. And a pleasant fire our souls to regale. We'd sing and we'd pray all the live long day, Nor ever once from the church to stray.

Beer, Fire, Long

William Blake (1966). “Complete Writings: With Variant Readings”, p.216, Oxford University Press, USA

Death is terrible, tho' borne on angels' wings!

Angel, Wings, Terrible

William Blake (2008). “The Complete Poetry and Prose of William Blake”, p.436, Univ of California Press

Christ's crucifix shall be made an excuse for executing criminals.

Judging, Criminals, Excuse

William Blake (1966). “Complete Writings: With Variant Readings”, p.380, Oxford University Press, USA

Father, O father! what do we here In this land of unbelief and fear?

Fear, Father, Land

William Blake (2005). “Collected Poems”, p.90, Routledge

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