William Blake Quotes About Soul

Quotes about: Soul

• The soul of sweet delight, can never be defiled.

  William Blake

  Sweet, Artist, Soul

  William Blake, David Fuller (2000). “William Blake: Selected Poetry and Prose”, p.171, Pearson Education

• God appears, and God is Light, to those poor souls who dwell in Night; but does a Human Form display to those who dwell in realms of Day.

  William Blake

  Night, Light, Soul

  'Auguries of Innocence' (c.1803) l. 129

• 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

• Joy and woe are woven fine,
  A clothing for the soul divine.
  Under every grief and pine
  Runs a joy with silken twine.

  William Blake

  Inspirational, Life, Running

  William Blake (1868). “Songs of Innocence and of Experience, Showing the Two Contrary States of the Human Soul”, p.98

• More! More! is the cry of a mistaken soul.

  William Blake

  Wisdom, Soul, Cry

  William Blake, W. H. Stevenson (2007). “Blake: The Complete Poems”, p.44, Pearson Education

• But if at church they would give some ale. And a pleasant fire our souls to regale. We'd sing and we'd pray all the live long day, Nor ever once from the church to stray.

  William Blake

  Beer, Fire, Long

  William Blake (1966). “Complete Writings: With Variant Readings”, p.216, Oxford University Press, USA

• The stars are threshed, and the souls are threshed from their husks.

  William Blake

  Stars, Soul

• Man was made for joy and woe, and when this we rightly know through the world we safely go. Joy and woe are woven fine, a clothing for the soul to bind.

  William Blake

  Men, Joy, Soul

  "Auguries of Innocence". Poem by William Blake, 1803.

• 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

• My mother bore me in the southern wild, And I am black, but O! my soul is white; White as an angel is the English child, But I am black as if bereaved of light.

  William Blake

  Mother, Children, Angel

  'Songs of Innocence' (1789) 'The Little Black Boy'

• My Brother starv'd between two Walls,His Children's Cry my Soul appalls

  William Blake

  Brother, Children, Wall

  William Blake (2000). “The Selected Poems of William Blake”, p.135, Wordsworth Editions

• The pure soul shall mount on native wings, . . . and cut a path into the heaven of glory.

  William Blake

  Cutting, Wings, Heaven

  William Blake (2005). “Collected Poems”, p.34, 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

• Where others see but the dawn coming over the hill, I see the soul of God shouting for joy.

  William Blake

  Joy, Soul, Dawn

• Every wolf's and lion's howl
  Raises from Hell a human soul.

  William Blake

  Soul, Lions, Hell

  William Blake, David Fuller (2000). “William Blake: Selected Poetry and Prose”, p.286, Pearson Education

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