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Quotes from The Marriage of Heaven and Hell — William Blake

1757–1827 England

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

The Marriage of Heaven and Hell (1790)

Those who restrain desire do so because theirs is weak enough to be restrained; and the restrainer or reason usurps its place & governs the unwilling.

The Marriage of Heaven and Hell (1790)

Rintrah roars and shakes his fires in the burden'd air;
Hungry clouds swag on the deep.

The Marriage of Heaven and Hell (1790)

A fool sees not the same tree that a wise man sees.
He whose face gives no light shall never become a star.

The Marriage of Heaven and Hell (1790)

The busy bee has no time for sorrow.

The Marriage of Heaven and Hell (1790)

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

The Marriage of Heaven and Hell (1790)

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.

The Marriage of Heaven and Hell (1790)

The pride of the peacock is the glory of God.
The lust of the goat is the bounty of God.
The wrath of the lion is the wisdom of God.
The nakedness of woman is the work of God.

The Marriage of Heaven and Hell (1790)

Opposition is true Friendship.

The Marriage of Heaven and Hell (1790)

Attribution

Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: William Blake (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.