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William Blake Quotes - Page 9

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Tyger! Tyger! burning bright In the forests of the night, What immortal hand or eye Could frame thy fearful symmetry?

Tyger! Tyger! burning bright In the forests of the night, What immortal hand or eye Could frame thy fearful symmetry?

Motivational, Eye, Night

Songs of Experience "The Tiger" (1794)

I am under the direction of messengers from Heaven daily and nightly.

Heaven, Messengers

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

And is he honest who resists his genius or conscience only for the sake of present ease or gratification

Genius, Ease, Sake

William Blake (2008). “The Complete Poetry and Prose of William Blake”, p.39, Univ of California Press

Without contraries is no progression. Attraction and repulsion, reason and energy, love and hate, are necessary to human existence.

Love, Hate, Energy

'The Marriage of Heaven and Hell' (1790-3) 'The Argument'

There is a place where Contrarieties are equally True.

William Blake (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of William Blake (Illustrated)”, p.578, Delphi Classics

Why cannot the ear be closed to its own destruction? Or the glistening eye to the poison of a smile?

Regret, Eye, Poison

William Blake (2005). “Collected Poems”, p.162, Routledge

God appears, and God is Light, to those poor souls who dwell in Night; but does a Human Form display to those who dwell in realms of Day.

Night, Light, Soul

'Auguries of Innocence' (c.1803) l. 129

Angels are happier than men and devils, because they are not always prying after good and evil in one another, and eating the tree of knowledge for Satan's gratification.

Angel, Men, Evil

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

Nothing is real beyond imaginative patterns men make of reality.

Real, Men, Patterns

The ruins of time build mansions in eternity.

Time, Ruins, Eternity

William Blake (2008). “The Complete Poetry and Prose of William Blake”, p.705, Univ of California Press

Then cherish pity, lest you drive an angel from your door.

Angel, Doors, Innocence And Experience

'Songs of Innocence' (1789) 'Holy Thursday'

The soul of sweet delight, can never be defiled.

Sweet, Artist, Soul

William Blake, David Fuller (2000). “William Blake: Selected Poetry and Prose”, p.171, Pearson Education

Fun I love, but too much fun is of all things the most loathsome. Mirth is better than fun, and happiness is better than mirth.

Love, Fun, Too Much

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

The generations of men run on in the tide of time, but leave their destined lineaments permanent for ever and ever.

Running, Men, Tides

William Blake, W. H. Stevenson (2007). “Blake: The Complete Poems”, p.549, Pearson Education

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?

Wisdom, Eagles, Doe

'The Book of Thel' (1789) plate i 'Thel's Motto'

Then my verse I dishonor, my pictures despise, my person degrade and my temper chastise; and the pen is my terror, the pencil my shame; and my talents I bury, and dead is my fame.

Despair, Talent, Shame

William Blake, W. H. Stevenson (2007). “Blake: The Complete Poems”, p.491, Pearson Education

Where others see but the dawn coming over the hill, I see the soul of God shouting for joy.

Joy, Soul, Dawn

Time is the mercy of Eternity; without Time's swiftness Which is the swiftest of all things, all were eternal torment.

Time, Swiftness, Mercy

William Blake (2008). “The Complete Poetry and Prose of William Blake”, p.121, Univ of California Press

Opposition is true friendship.

Friendship, Artist, True Friendship

William Blake, Michael Mason (1998). “Selected Poetry”, p.83, Oxford University Press, USA

Reason, or the ratio of all we have already known, is not the same that it shall be when we know more.

Atheism, Statistics, Ratios

William Blake, Morris Eaves, Robert N. Essick, Joseph Viscomi (1998). “The Early Illuminated Books”, p.26, Princeton University Press

If you, who are organised by Divine Providence for spiritual communion, refuse, and bury your talent in the earth, even though you should want natural bread, sorrow and desperation pursue you through life, and after death shame and confusion of face to eternity.

Spiritual, Confusion, Sorrow

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”

God only acts and is, in existing beings or men.

Men

William Blake (2005). “Collected Poems”, p.172, Routledge

He who makes his law a curse, by his own law shall surely die.

Revenge, Law, Curse

William Blake, David Fuller (2000). “William Blake: Selected Poetry and Prose”, p.313, Pearson Education

Forgive what you do not approve & love me for this energetic exertion of my talent

Forgiving, Talent, Energetic

William Blake, W. H. Stevenson (2007). “Blake: The Complete Poems”, p.659, Pearson Education

O why was I born with a different face? Why was I not born like the rest of my race?

Different Faces, Race, Born

In Letter to Thomas Butts, 16 August 1803

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