Skip to content

William Blake on Birthday

1757–1827 England

← All quotes by William Blake

8 quotes

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

Milton (1809)

Eternity is in love with the productions of time.

The Marriage of Heaven and Hell (1790)

To see a World in a Grain of Sand
And a Heaven in a Wild Flower,
Hold Infinity in the palm of your hand
And Eternity in an hour.

Auguries of Innocence (1803)

Love to faults is always blind,
Always is to joys inclined,
Lawless, winged, and unconfined,
And breaks all chains from every mind.

Poems from Blake's Notebook (1791)

He who binds to himself a joy
Does the wingèd life destroy;
But he who kisses the joy as it flies
Lives in eternity's sunrise.

Poems from Blake's Notebook (1791)

Man was made for joy and woe,
And when this we rightly know
Through the world we safely go.
Joy and woe are woven fine,
A clothing for the soul divine.

Auguries of Innocence (1803)

Half Friendship is the bitterest Enmity...

Jerusalem The Emanation of The Giant Albion (1803)

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.