William Blake Quotes About Heart

Quotes about: Heart

• Love seeketh not itself to please, nor for itself hath any care, but for another gives its ease, and builds a Heaven in Hell's despair.

  William Blake

  Love, Life, Broken Heart

  'Songs of Experience' (1794) 'The Clod and the Pebble'

• Thy friendship oft has made my heart to ache: do be my enemy for friendship's sake.

  William Blake

  Friendship, Loyalty, Heart

  William Blake (2000). “The Selected Poems of William Blake”, p.163, Wordsworth Editions

• When the voices of children are heard on the greenAnd laughing is heard on the hill,My heart is at rest within my breastAnd everything else is still.

  William Blake

  Children, Heart, Voice

  William Blake (2005). “Collected Poems”, p.58, Routledge

• For Mercy has a human heart Pity, a human face: And Love, the human form divine, And Peace, the human dress.

  William Blake

  Love, Jealousy, Peace

  'Songs of Innocence' (1789) 'The Divine Image'

• LOVE'S SECRET Never seek to tell thy love, Love that never told can be; For the gentle wind doth move Silently, invisibly. I told my love, I told my love, I told her all my heart, Trembling, cold, in ghastly fears. Ah! she did depart! Soon after she was gone from me, A traveller came by, Silently, invisibly: He took her with a sigh.

  William Blake

  Moving, Heart, Wind

  William Blake (1973). “The Works of William Blake: Poetic, Symbolic, and Critical: Poems”

• A DIVINE IMAGE Cruelty has a human heart, And Jealousy a human face; Terror the human form divine, And Secresy the human dress. The human dress is forged iron, The human form a fiery forge, The human face a furnace sealed, The human heart its hungry gorge.

  William Blake

  Heart, Iron, Faces

  William Blake (2015). “Poems of William Blake”, p.69, The Floating Press

• 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

• The eye sees more than the heart knows.

  William Blake

  Heart, Eye, Knows

  William Blake (2008). “The Complete Poetry and Prose of William Blake”, p.45, Univ of California Press

• 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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