William Blake Quotes about Lying

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We are led to believe a lie When we see not through the eye.

We are led to believe a lie When we see not through the eye.

William Blake

Lying, Believe, Eye

William Blake, David Fuller (2000). “William Blake: Selected Poetry and Prose”, p.289, Pearson Education

This life's dim windows of the soul Distorts the heavens from pole to pole And leads you to believe a lie When you see with, not through, the eye.

William Blake

Life, Time, Lying

'The Everlasting Gospel' (c.1818) (d) l. 99

Bring me an axe and spade, Bring me a winding-sheet; When I my grave have made Let winds and tempests beat: Then down I'll lie as cold as clay. True love doth pass away!

William Blake

Love, Lying, Wind

William Blake, David Fuller (2000). “William Blake: Selected Poetry and Prose”, p.46, Pearson Education

Every thing possible to be believ'd is an image of truth.

William Blake

Truth, Lying, Believe

Gerda S. Norvig, William Blake (1993). “Dark Figures in the Desired Country: Blake's Illustrations to The Pilgrim's Progress”, p.45, Univ of California Press

I asked a thief to steal me a peach: He turned up his eyes. I asked a lithe lady to lie her down: Holy and meek, she cries. As soon as I went An angel came. He winked at the thief And smiled at the dame- And without one word spoke Had a peach from the tree, And 'twixt earnest and joke Enjoyed the lady.

William Blake

Lying, Eye, Angel

William Blake, W. H. Stevenson (2007). “Blake: The Complete Poems”, p.153, Pearson Education

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.

William Blake

Christian, Lying, Building Up

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