William Blake Quotes About Eyes

Quotes about: Eyes

• The tree which moves some to tears of joy is in the eyes of others only a green thing that stands in the way. Some see nature all ridicule and deformity... and some scarce see nature at all. But to the eyes of the man of imagination, nature is imagination itself.

  William Blake

  Nature, Moving, Eye

  William Blake (1977). “The Portable William Blake”, p.136, Penguin

• Tyger! Tyger! burning bright In the forests of the night, What immortal hand or eye Could frame thy fearful symmetry?

  William Blake

  Motivational, Eye, Night

  Songs of Experience "The Tiger" (1794)

• As a man is, so he sees. As the eye is formed, such are its powers.

  William Blake

  Eye, Men, Vision

  William Blake (1966). “Complete Writings: With Variant Readings”, p.793, Oxford University Press, USA

• This life's dim windows of the soul Distorts the heavens from pole to pole And leads you to believe a lie When you see with, not through, the eye.

  William Blake

  Life, Time, Lying

  'The Everlasting Gospel' (c.1818) (d) l. 99

• I see through my eyes, not with them.

  William Blake

  Eye, Through My Eyes

• Mysteries are not to be solved. They eye goes blind when it only wants to see why.

  William Blake

  Eye, Want, Mystery

• The naked women's body is a portion of eternity too great for the eye of man.

  William Blake

  Eye, Men, Creative

• The eye altering, alters all.

  William Blake

  Eye, Artist, Awareness

  The Mental Traveller

• To the eyes of the man of imagination, nature is imagination itself.

  William Blake

  Nature, Eye, Science

  William Blake (1977). “The Portable William Blake”, p.136, Penguin

• To some people a tree is something so incredibly beautiful that it brings tears to the eyes. To others it is just a green thing that stands in the way.

  William Blake

  Beautiful, Attitude, Eye

• To the eyes of a miser a guinea is more beautiful than the sun, and a bag worn with the use of money has more beautiful proportions than a vine filled with grapes.

  William Blake

  Beautiful, Money, Eye

  William Blake (2008). “The Complete Poetry and Prose of William Blake”, p.702, Univ of California Press

• We are led to believe a lie When we see not through the eye.

  William Blake

  Lying, Believe, Eye

  William Blake, David Fuller (2000). “William Blake: Selected Poetry and Prose”, p.289, Pearson Education

• If you cannot imagine with the mind's eye much more than you can see with the mortal eye, you have a very poor imagination indeed.

  William Blake

  Eye, Imagination, Mind

• O thou with dewy locks, who lookest down
  Thro' the clear windows of the morning, turn
  Thine angel eyes upon our western isle,
  Which in full choir hails thy approach, O Spring!
  
  The hills tell each other, and the listening
  Valleys hear; all our longing eyes are turned
  Up to thy bright pavilions: issue forth,
  And let thy holy feet visit our clime.
  
  Come o'er the eastern hills, and let our winds
  Kiss thy perfumed garments; let us taste
  Thy morn and evening breath; scatter thy pearls
  Upon our love-sick land that mourns for thee.

  William Blake

  Morning, Spring, Eye

  William Blake (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of William Blake (Illustrated)”, p.18, Delphi Classics

• Mock on, mock on, Voltaire, Rousseau! Mock on, mock on: 'Tis all in vain! You throw the sand against the wind, And the wind blows it back again. And every sand becomes a gem Reflected in the beams divine; Blown back they blind the mocking eye, But still in Israel's paths they shine. The atoms of Democritus And Newton's particles of light Are sands upon the Red Sea shore, Where Israel's tents do shine so bright.

  William Blake

  Eye, Science, Blow

  'MS Note-Book' p. 7

• I rest not from my great task! | To open the Eternal Worlds, | to open the immortal Eyes of Man | Inwards into the Worlds of Thought; | Into eternity, ever expanding | In the Bosom of God, | The Human Imagination

  William Blake

  Eye, Men, Imagination

  William Blake (2008). “The Complete Poetry and Prose of William Blake”, p.147, Univ of California Press

• I asked a thief to steal me a peach: He turned up his eyes. I asked a lithe lady to lie her down: Holy and meek, she cries. As soon as I went An angel came. He winked at the thief And smiled at the dame- And without one word spoke Had a peach from the tree, And 'twixt earnest and joke Enjoyed the lady.

  William Blake

  Lying, Eye, Angel

  William Blake, W. H. Stevenson (2007). “Blake: The Complete Poems”, p.153, Pearson Education

• I turn my eyes to the schools & universities of Europe And there behold the loom of Locke whose woof rages dire, Washed by the water-wheels of Newton. Black the cloth In heavy wreaths folds over every nation; cruel works Of many wheels I view, wheel without wheel, with cogs tyrannic Moving by compulsion each other: not as those in Eden, which Wheel within wheel in freedom revolve, in harmony & peace.

  William Blake

  Education, Moving, School

  William Blake, W. H. Stevenson (2007). “Blake: The Complete Poems”, p.688, Pearson Education

• But to go to school in a summer morn, O! It drives all joy away; Under a cruel eye outworn, The little ones spend the day In sighing and dismay.

  William Blake

  Summer, School, Eye

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

• The roaring of lions, the howling of wolves, the raging of the stormy sea, and the destructive sword, are portions of eternity, too great for the eye of man.

  William Blake

  Eye, Men, Sea

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

• The gulfing whale was like a dot in the spell. Yet look upon it, and 'twould size and swell To its huge self, and the minutest fish Would pass the very hardest gazer's wish, And show his little eye's anatomy.

  William Blake

  Eye, Self, Whales

• Why cannot the ear be closed to its own destruction?
  Or the glistening eye to the poison of a smile?

  William Blake

  Regret, Eye, Poison

  William Blake (2005). “Collected Poems”, p.162, Routledge

• Prepare your hearts for Death's cold hand! prepare
  Your souls for flight, your bodies for the earth;
  Prepare your arms for glorious victory;
  Prepare your eyes to meet a holy God!
  Prepare, prepare!

  William Blake

  Death, Heart, Eye

  William Blake (2005). “Collected Poems”, p.242, Routledge

• For the Eye altering alters all;
  The Senses roll themselves in fear
  And the flat Earth becomes a Ball.

  William Blake

  Eye, Imagination, Balls

  William Blake (2005). “Collected Poems”, p.123, Routledge

• The countless gold of a merry heart, The rubies and pearls of a loving eye, The indolent never can bring to the mart, Nor the secret hoard up in his treasury.

  William Blake

  Heart, Eye, Secret

  William Blake, W. H. Stevenson (2007). “Blake: The Complete Poems”, p.171, Pearson Education

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