William Blake Quotes About Birds

Quotes about: Birds

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  No bird soars too high if he soars with his own wings.

  William Blake

  Love, Motivational, Cute

  William Blake, W. H. Stevenson (2007). “Blake: The Complete Poems”, p.114, Pearson Education

• The bird a nest, the spider a web, man friendship.

  William Blake

  Best Friend, Friendship, Happiness

  William Blake (1975). “The Marriage of Heaven and Hell”, p.18, Oxford Paperbacks

• When thou seest an eagle, thou seest a portion of genius; lift up thy head!

  William Blake

  Eagles, Bird, Genius

  William Blake, W. H. Stevenson (2007). “Blake: The Complete Poems”, p.116, Pearson Education

• Then the Parson might preach, & drink, & sing, And we'd be as happy as birds in the spring; And modest dame Lurch, who is always at Church, Would not have bandy children, nor fasting, nor birch.

  William Blake

  Children, Spring, Bird

  'Songs of Experience' (1794) 'The Little Vagabond'

• The crow wished everything was black, the Owl, that everything was white.

  William Blake

  Animal, White, Bird

  William Blake, W. H. Stevenson (2007). “Blake: The Complete Poems”, p.116, Pearson Education

• How can a bird that is born for joy Sit in a cage and sing?

  William Blake

  Bird, Joy, Cages

  William Blake (2005). “Collected Poems”, p.82, Routledge

• How can the bird that is born for joy Sit in a cage and sing? How can a child, when fears annoy, But droop his tender wing, And forget his youthful spring?

  William Blake

  Children, Spring, Wings

  William Blake, Andrew Lincoln (1991). “Songs of Innocence and of Experience”, p.202, Princeton University Press

• How do you know but ev’ry Bird that cuts the airy way, Is an immense world of delight, clos’d by your senses five?

  William Blake

  Cutting, Bird, Delight

  William Blake (1975). “The Marriage of Heaven and Hell”, p.51, Oxford Paperbacks

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