William Blake Quotes About Water

Quotes about: Water

• The man who never alters his opinions is like standing water, and breeds reptiles of the mind.

  William Blake

  Change, Wisdom, Men

  William Blake, “The Marriage Of Heaven And Hell”

• THE POISON TREE I was angry with my friend: I told my wrath, my wrath did end. I was angry with my foe; I told it not, my wrath did grow. And I water'd it in fears, Night & morning with my tears; And I sunned it with my smiles And with soft deceitful wiles. And it grew both day and night, Till it bore an apple bright; And my foe beheld it shine, And he knew that it was mine, And into my garden stole When the night had veil'd the pole: In the morning glad I see My foe outstretch'd beneath the tree.

  William Blake

  Morning, Night, Garden

  'Songs of Experience' (1794) 'A Poison Tree'

• Expect poison from the standing water.

  William Blake

  Rain, Rivers, Water

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

• And I made a rural pen, And I stained the water clear, And I wrote my happy songs Every Child may joy to hear.

  William Blake

  Song, Children, Water

  William Blake, Andrew Lincoln (1991). “Songs of Innocence and of Experience”, p.143, Princeton University Press

• 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

• Dip him in the river who loves water.

  William Blake

  Rivers, Water, Dip

  William Blake (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of William Blake (Illustrated)”, p.209, Delphi Classics

• The best wine is the oldest, the best water the newest.

  William Blake

  Wine, Water, Best Wine

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

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