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William Blake Quotes - Page 18

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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.

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.

Pain, Night, Clouds

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

You smile with pomp and rigor, you talk of benevolence and virtue; I act with benevolence and virtue and get murdered time after time.

Feelings, Religion, Virtue

William Blake (1906). “Poetical Works”

Let every Christian, as much as in him lies, engage himself openly and publicly, before all the World, in some mental pursuit for the Building up of Jerusalem.

Christian, Lying, Building Up

William Blake, Morton D. Paley (1998). “Jerusalem: The Emanation of the Giant Albion”, p.258, Princeton University Press

Embraces are comminglings from the head even to the feet, And not a pompous high priest entering by a secret place.

Love, Secret Places, Feet

William Blake, W. H. Stevenson (2007). “Blake: The Complete Poems”, p.822, Pearson Education

Grown old in love from seven till seven times seven,I oft have wished for Hell for ease from Heaven.

Heaven, Ease, Hell

William Blake, Michael Mason (1998). “Selected Poetry”, p.265, Oxford University Press, USA

Although wine when it is read somewhat lacks the savour of wine when it is drunk, wine remains a very pleasant thing both to read about and to chat about.

Wine, Drunk, Savour

I was in a Printing-house in Hell, and saw the method in which knowledge is transmitted from generation to generation.

House, Generations, Saws

'The Marriage of Heaven and Hell' (1790-3) 'A Memorable Fancy' plates 15-17

Dip him in the river who loves water.

Rivers, Water, Dip

William Blake (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of William Blake (Illustrated)”, p.209, Delphi Classics

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.

Mother, Father, Sleep

'Songs of Innocence' (1789) 'The Chimney Sweeper'

All futurity seems teeming with endless destruction never to be repelled; Desperate remorse swallows the present in a quenchless rage.

Future, Desperate, Rage

William Blake, W. H. Stevenson (2007). “Blake: The Complete Poems”, p.421, Pearson Education

If others had not been foolish, we should be so.

Foolish, Should, Folly

William Blake (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of William Blake (Illustrated)”, p.203, Delphi Classics

Come o'er the eastern hills, and let our winds Kiss thy perfumed garments; let us taste Thy morn and evening breath; scatter thy pearls Upon our love-sick land that mourns for thee.

Kissing, Land, Wind

William Blake, W. H. Stevenson (2007). “Blake: The Complete Poems”, p.4, Pearson Education

May God us keep From Single vision and Newton's sleep.

Sleep, Vision, May

"Letter to Thomas Butts, 22 November 1802" (1802)

Degrade first the Arts if you'd Mankind Degrade. Hire Idiots to Paint with cold light & hot shade: Give high Price for the worst, leave the best in disgrace, And with Labours of Ignorance fill every place.

Art, Ignorance, Light

William Blake (2000). “The Selected Poems of William Blake”, p.155, Wordsworth Editions

Mock on, mock on, Voltaire, Rousseau! Mock on, mock on: 'Tis all in vain! You throw the sand against the wind, And the wind blows it back again. And every sand becomes a gem Reflected in the beams divine; Blown back they blind the mocking eye, But still in Israel's paths they shine. The atoms of Democritus And Newton's particles of light Are sands upon the Red Sea shore, Where Israel's tents do shine so bright.

Eye, Science, Blow

'MS Note-Book' p. 7

Sweet babe, in thy face Soft desires I can trace, Secret joys and secret smiles, Little pretty infant wiles.

Baby, Sweet, Joy

William Blake, W. H. Stevenson (2007). “Blake: The Complete Poems”, p.155, Pearson Education

The vision of Christ that thou dost see is my vision's greatest enemy . Both read the Bible day and night, but thou read'st black where I read white. His seventy disciples sent against religion and government .

Night, Government, White

William Blake (1926). “Prefatory note There is no natural religion. All religions are one. The marriage of heaven and hell Visions of the daughters of Albion. A song of liberty. America. Europe. The book of Urizen. The book of Los. Ahania. The song of Los. The four Zoas. Milton. Jerusalem. On Homer's poetry; On Virgil. Laocoön. The ghost of Abel”

O Autumn, laden with fruit, and stained With the blood of the grape, pass not, but sit Beneath my shady roof; there thou may'st rest, And tune thy jolly voice to my fresh pipe; And all the daughters of the year shall dance! Sing now the lusty song of fruit and flowers.

Daughter, Song, Flower

William Blake (2008). “The Complete Poetry and Prose of William Blake”, p.409, Univ of California Press

My Brother starv'd between two Walls,His Children's Cry my Soul appalls

Brother, Children, Wall

William Blake (2000). “The Selected Poems of William Blake”, p.135, Wordsworth Editions

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

Boys, Desire, Bed

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

The fox provides for himself, but God provides for the lion.

Lions, Foxes, God Provides

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

England! awake! awake! awake! Jerusalem thy sister calls! Why wilt thou sleep the sleep of death And close her from thy ancient walls?

Sister, Wall, Sleep

'Jerusalem' (1815) 'To the Christians' (plate 77) "England! awake!... "

But to go to school in a summer morn, O! It drives all joy away; Under a cruel eye outworn, The little ones spend the day In sighing and dismay.

Summer, School, Eye

William Blake, Andrew Lincoln (1991). “Songs of Innocence and of Experience”, p.202, Princeton University Press

The hand of Vengeance found the Bed To which the Purple Tyrant fled The iron hand crush'd the tyrant's head And became Tyrant in his stead.

Crush, Tyrants, Purple

William Blake (1977). “The Portable William Blake”, p.119, Penguin

The spirits of the air live on the smells Of fruit; and joy, with pinions light, roves round The gardens, or sits singing in the trees.

Autumn, Garden, Light

William Blake (2005). “Collected Poems”, p.4, Routledge

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