WILLIAM BLAKE QUOTES IV

English poet & painter (1757-1827)

The true method of knowledge is experiment.

WILLIAM BLAKE

All Religions are One


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.

WILLIAM BLAKE

Auguries of Innocence


He who shall teach the child to doubt
The rotting grave shall ne'er get out.

WILLIAM BLAKE

Auguries of Innocence


The eagle never lost so much time as when he submitted to learn of the crow.

WILLIAM BLAKE

Proverbs of Hell


I have Conquer'd, and shall still Go on Conquering. Nothing can withstand the fury of my Course.

WILLIAM BLAKE

The Letters of William Blake


Terror in the house does roar,
But Pity stands before the door.

WILLIAM BLAKE

"Terror in the House"


Improvement makes straight roads; but the crooked roads without improvement are roads of genius.

WILLIAM BLAKE

Proverbs of Hell


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

"Nurse's Song", Songs of Innocence


For Mercy has a human heart,
Pity, a human face,
And Love, the human form divine,
And Peace, the human dress.

WILLIAM BLAKE

"The Divine Image", Songs of Innocence


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.

WILLIAM BLAKE

"A Vision of the Last Judgement"


If a thing loves, it is infinite.

WILLIAM BLAKE

Annotations to Swedenborg


Think in the morning. Act in the noon. Eat in the evening. Sleep in the night.

WILLIAM BLAKE

Proverbs of Hell


Eternity is before me like a dark lamp.

WILLIAM BLAKE

Vala


Every Harlot was a Virgin once.

WILLIAM BLAKE

For the Sexes: The Gates of Paradise


Never seek to tell thy love
Love that never told can be;
For the gentle wind does move
Silently, invisibly.

WILLIAM BLAKE

Poems from Blake's Notebook


If the fool would persist in his folly he would become wise.

WILLIAM BLAKE

Proverbs of Hell


The reason Milton wrote in fetters when he wrote of Angels and God, and at liberty when of Devils and Hell, is because he was a true poet and of the Devils' party without knowing it.

WILLIAM BLAKE

"The Voice of the Devil", The Marriage of Heaven and Hell


But to the Eyes of the Man of Imagination, Nature is Imagination itself. As a man is, So he Sees. As the Eye is formed, such are its Powers.

WILLIAM BLAKE

letter to Rev. Dr. Trusler, August 23, 1799


The sword sung on the barren heath,
The sickle in the fruitful field;
The sword he sung a song of death,
But could not make the sickle yield.

WILLIAM BLAKE

"Love to Faults", Poems from Blake's Notebook


Forgiveness of enemies can only come upon their repentance.

WILLIAM BLAKE

Annotations to Lavater