William Blake Quotes About Age

Quotes about: Age

• I am more famed in Heaven for my works than I could well conceive. In my brain are studies & chambers filled with books & pictures of old, which I wrote and painted in ages of Eternity before my mortal life; and whose works are the delight & study of Archangels. Why, then, should I be anxious about the riches or fame of mortality?

  William Blake

  Book, Heaven, Brain

• To create a little flower is the labour of ages.

  William Blake

  Happiness, Art, Nature

  William Blake (2005). “Collected Poems”, p.167, Routledge

• Does a firm persuasion that a thing is so, make it so?" He replied, "All poets believe it does. And in ages of imagination, this firm persuasion removes mountains; but many are not capable of firm persuasion of anything.

  William Blake

  Believe, Imagination, Age

  'The Marriage of Heaven and Hell' (1790-3) 'A Memorable Fancy' plates 12-13

• Children of the future age Reading this indignant page Know that in a former time Love, sweet love, was thought a crime

  William Blake

  Sweet, Children, Reading

  'Songs of Experience' (1794) 'A Little Girl Lost'

• Man has no Body distinct from his Soul; for that called Body is a portion of Soul discerned by the five Senses, the chief inlets of Soul in this age.

  William Blake

  Life, Men, Soul

  William Blake, Michael Mason (1998). “Selected Poetry”, p.75, Oxford University Press, USA

• Ages are All Equal. / But Genius is Always Above The Age.

  William Blake

  Age, Genius, Equal

  William Blake (2008). “The Complete Poetry and Prose of William Blake”, p.649, Univ of California Press

• The Britons (say historians) were naked, civilized men, learned, studious, abstruse in thought and contemplation; naked, simple, plain in their acts and manners; wiser than after ages.

  William Blake

  Simple, Men, Age

  William Blake, David V. Erdman, Harold Bloom (1982). “The Complete Poetry and Prose of William Blake”, p.542, Univ of California Press

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