WILLIAM BLAKE QUOTES
English poet & painter (1757-1827)
Death is terrible, tho' borne on angels' wings!
WILLIAM BLAKE
King Edward the Third
Prisons are built with stones of Law, brothels with bricks of Religion.
WILLIAM BLAKE
The Marriage of Heaven and Hell
Abstinence sows sand all over
The ruddy limbs and flaming hair,
But Desire gratified
Plants fruits of life and beauty there.
WILLIAM BLAKE
Gnomic Verses
Man must & will have some religion; if he has not the religion of Jesus, he will have the religion of Satan & will erect the synagogue of Satan.
WILLIAM BLAKE
Jerusalem
Man was made for joy and woe,
And when this we rightly know
Through the world we safely go.
WILLIAM BLAKE
"Auguries of Innocence", Poems from the Pickering Manuscript
A fool sees not the same tree that a wise man sees.
WILLIAM BLAKE
The Marriage of Heaven and Hell
What is Grand is necessarily obscure to Weak men. That which can be made Explicit to the idiot is not worth my care.
WILLIAM BLAKE
letter to Rev. Dr. Trusler, August 23, 1799
O Winter! bar thine adamantine doors:
The north is thine; there hast thou built thy dark,
Deep-founded habitation. Shake not thy roofs,
Nor bend thy pillars with thine iron car.
WILLIAM BLAKE
"To Winter"
Art can never exist without Naked beauty display'd.
WILLIAM BLAKE
on his etching of the Laocoön
What is now proved was once only imagined.
WILLIAM BLAKE
The Marriage of Heaven and Hell
Does the Eagle know what is in the pit?
Or wilt thou go ask the Mole?
WILLIAM BLAKE
"Thel's Motto", The Book of Thel
I was angry with my friend:
I told my wrath, my wrath did end.
I was angry with my foe:
I told it not, my wrath did grow.
WILLIAM BLAKE
Songs of Experience
Tiger! Tiger! burning bright
in the forests of the night,
What immortal hand or eye
Could frame thy fearful symmetry?
WILLIAM BLAKE
"The Tiger"
O white-robed Angel, guide my timorous hand to write as on a lofty rock with iron pen the words of truth, that all who pass may read.
WILLIAM BLAKE
"Samson", Poetical Sketches
Nothing can be more contemptible than to suppose public records to be true.
WILLIAM BLAKE
Annotations to An Apology for the Bible by R. Watson
Fiery the Angels rose, and as they rose deep thunder roll'd
Around their shores: indignant burning with the fires of Orc.
WILLIAM BLAKE
America: A Prophecy
If the doors of perception were cleansed everything would appear to man as it is, infinite.
WILLIAM BLAKE
The Marriage of Heaven and Hell
The tigers of wrath are wiser than the horses of instruction.
WILLIAM BLAKE
The Marriage of Heaven and Hell
What is the price of experience? Do men buy it for a song? Or wisdom for a dance in the street? No, it is bought with the price of all the man hath, his house, his wife, his children.
WILLIAM BLAKE
Vala
A truth that's told with bad intent
Beats all the lies you can invent.
WILLIAM BLAKE
Auguries of Innocence