William Blake Quotes About Heaven

Quotes about: Heaven

• Gratitude is heaven itself.

  William Blake

  Thanksgiving, Gratitude, Heaven

  Gerda S. Norvig, William Blake (1993). “Dark Figures in the Desired Country: Blake's Illustrations to The Pilgrim's Progress”, p.88, Univ of California Press

• To see a world in a grain of sand
  And a heaven in a wild flower,
  Hold infinity in the palm of your hand,
  And eternity in an hour.

  William Blake

  Inspirational, Happiness, Peace

  'Auguries of Innocence' (c.1803) l. 1

• The Man who never in his Mind & Thoughts travel'd to Heaven Is No Artist.

  William Blake

  Travel, Artist, Men

  "The Prophetic Writings of William Blake: With a General Introduction Glossarial Index of Symbols Commentary and Appendices".

• 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'

• 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

• A robin redbreast in a cage Puts all heaven in a rage.

  William Blake

  Animal, Heaven, Humanity

  "Auguries of Innocence" l. 5 (ca. 1803)

• The moon, like a flower in heaven's high bower, with silent delight sits and smiles on the night.

  William Blake

  Flower, Moon, Night

  William Blake (2005). “Collected Poems”, p.55, Routledge

• In your own bosom you bear your heaven and earth,
  And all you behold, though it appears without,
  It is within, in your imagination,
  Of which this world of mortality is but a shadow.

  William Blake

  Imagination, Heaven, Shadow

  William Blake, David Fuller (2008). “William Blake: Selected Poetry and Prose”, Longman Publishing Group

• As the caterpillar chooses the fairest leaves to lay her eggs on, so the priest lays his curse on the fairest joys.

  William Blake

  Atheist, Eggs, Joy

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

• A dog starv'd at the master's gate
  Predicts the ruin of the State.
  A horse misus'd upon the road
  Calls to heaven for human blood.
  Each outcry of the hunted hare
  A fibre from the brain does tear,
  A skylark wounded on the wing,
  A cherubim does cease to sing.

  William Blake

  Dog, Horse, Animal

  'Auguries of Innocence' (c.1803) l. 9

• Those who enter the gates of heaven are not beings who have no passions or who have curbed the passions, but those who have cultivated an understanding of them.

  William Blake

  Inspirational, Passion, Emotional

• I give you the end of a golden string, Only wind it into a ball, It will lead you in at Heaven's gate Built in Jerusalem's wall.

  William Blake

  Wall, Wind, Giving

  "I give you the end of a golden string" (1815)

• 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

• Gratitude, in itself, is heaven.

  William Blake

  Gratitude, Heaven

• Gratitude is heaven itself; there could be no heaven without gratitude.

  William Blake

  Gratitude, Heaven

  William Blake (1966). “Complete Writings: With Variant Readings”, p.834, Oxford University Press, USA

• Love seeketh only self to please, To bind another to its delight, Joys in another's loss of ease, And builds a Hell in Heaven's despite.

  William Blake

  Love, Loss, Self

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

• Men are admitted into heaven not because they have curbed and governed their passions or have no passions, but because they have cultivated their understandings. The treasures of heaven are not negations of passion, but realities of intellect, from which all the passions emanate uncurbed in their eternal glory.

  William Blake

  Passion, Reality, Men

  William Blake (1977). “The Portable William Blake”, p.454, Penguin

• The Vision of Christ that thou dost see,
  Is my vision's greatest enemy.
  Thine is the Friend of all Mankind,
  Mine speaks in Parables to the blind.
  Thine loves the same world that mine hates,
  Thy heaven-doors are my hell gates.

  William Blake

  Hate, Doors, Heaven

  William Blake (1977). “The Portable William Blake”, p.14, Penguin

• To see a world in a grain of sand and a heaven in a wildflower.

  William Blake

  Nature, Flower, Eternity Of Life

  "Auguries of Innocence" l. 1 (ca. 1803)

• When the stars threw down their spears, and watered heaven with their tears, did he smile his work to see? Did he who made the Lamb make thee?

  William Blake

  Stars, Heaven, Tears

  Songs of Experience "The Tiger" (1794)

• Men are admitted into heaven not because they have curbed or governed their passions, but because they have cultivate their understandings.

  William Blake

  Passion, Men, Heaven

  William Blake, David Fuller (2000). “William Blake: Selected Poetry and Prose”, p.208, Pearson Education

• Heaven is in a grain of sand.

  William Blake

  Heaven, Sand, Grains Of Sand

• The Fool shall not enter into Heaven let him be ever so Holy.

  William Blake

  Heaven, Fool, Holy

  William Blake, William Butler Yeats (2002). “Collected Poems”, p.233, Psychology Press

• God and His Priest and King,...make up a heaven of our misery.

  William Blake

  Kings, Heaven, Misery

  William Blake, W. H. Stevenson (2007). “Blake: The Complete Poems”, p.170, Pearson Education

• Grown old in love from seven till seven times seven,I oft have wished for Hell for ease from Heaven.

  William Blake

  Heaven, Ease, Hell

  William Blake, Michael Mason (1998). “Selected Poetry”, p.265, Oxford University Press, USA

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