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William Blake Quotes

1757–1827 England

William Blake (November 28 1757 – August 12 1827) was an English poet, Christian mystic, painter, printmaker, and engraver.

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Also known as: Blake, Blake, William

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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

Auguries of Innocence (1803)

Poetry Fetter'd. Fetters the Human Race. Nations are Destroy'd, or Flourish, in proportion as Their Poetry, Painting, and Music are Destroy'd or Flourish!

Jerusalem The Emanation of The Giant Albion (1803)

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

The Marriage of Heaven and Hell (1790)

To Chloe's breast young Cupid slily stole,
But he crept in at Myra's pocket-hole.

Fiery the Angels rose, and as they rose deep thunder roll'd
Around their shores: indignant burning with the fires of Orc.

Nothing can be more contemptible than to suppose Public RECORDS to be True.

Annotations to An Apology for the Bible by R. Watson (1798)

Do what you will, this world's a fiction and is made up of contradiction

Pity must join together those whom wrath has torn in sunder

Jerusalem The Emanation of The Giant Albion (1803)

Thou fair-hair’d angel of the evening,
Now, whilst the sun rests on the mountains, light
Thy bright torch of love; thy radiant crown
Put on, and smile upon our evening bed!

To the Evening Star (1783)

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)

When a Man has Married a Wife
He finds out whether
Her Knees & elbows are only
glued together.

Great things are done when Men & Mountains meet
This is not Done by Jostling in the Street.

The harlot's cry from street to street
Shall weave old England's winding sheet.

Auguries of Innocence (1803)

The iron hand crush'd the Tyrant's head
And became a Tyrant in his stead.

In the morning glad I see
My foe outstretch'd beneath the tree.

Songs of Experience (1794)

And throughout all eternity
I forgive you, you forgive me.

Poems from Blake's Notebook (1804)

Forgiveness of enemies can only come upon their repentance.

Annotations to Lavater (1788)

Why art thou silent and invisible,
Father of Jealousy?

Poems from Blake's Notebook (1791)

O Rose thou art sick.
The invisible worm,
That flies in the night
In the howling storm: Has found out thy bed
Of crimson joy:
And his dark secret love
Does thy life destroy.

Songs of Experience (1794)

Sleep, sleep, beauty bright,
Dreaming o'er the joys of night.
Sleep, sleep: in thy sleep
Little sorrows sit and weep.

Poems from Blake's Notebook (1791)

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