William Blake Quotes About Time

Quotes about: Time

• Eternity is in love with the productions of time.

  William Blake

  Love, Time, Eternity

  'The Marriage of Heaven and Hell' (1790-3) 'Proverbs of Hell'

• The eagle never lost so much time as when he submitted to learn of the crow

  William Blake

  Life, Time, Eagles

  William Blake (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of William Blake (Illustrated)”, p.203, Delphi Classics

• 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

• The busy bee has no time for sorrow.

  William Blake

  Time, Sorrow, Bees

  William Blake, William Butler Yeats (2002). “Collected Poems”, p.166, Psychology Press

• The hours of folly are measured by the clock; but of wisdom, no clock can measure.

  William Blake

  Wisdom, Time, Artist

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

• Ah, sunflower, weary of time, Who countest the steps of the sun, Seeking after that sweet golden clime Where the traveller's journey is done; Where the youth pined away with desire And the pale virgin shrouded in snow Arise from their graves, and aspire Where my sunflower wishes to go.

  William Blake

  Sweet, Time, Journey

  'Songs of Experience' (1794) 'Ah, Sun-flower!'

• The ruins of time build mansions in eternity.

  William Blake

  Time, Ruins, Eternity

  William Blake (2008). “The Complete Poetry and Prose of William Blake”, p.705, Univ of California Press

• Time is the mercy of Eternity; without Time's swiftness Which is the swiftest of all things, all were eternal torment.

  William Blake

  Time, Swiftness, Mercy

  William Blake (2008). “The Complete Poetry and Prose of William Blake”, p.121, Univ of California Press

• And did those feet in ancient time Walk upon England's mountains green? And was the holy Lamb of God On England's pleasant pastures seen?

  William Blake

  Time, Feet, Mountain

  Milton preface (1804 - 1810)

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