William Blake Quotes - Page 10

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• God only acts and is, in existing beings or men.

  William Blake

  Men

  William Blake (2005). “Collected Poems”, p.172, Routledge

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• The Whole Business of Man is The Arts, & All Things Common.

  William Blake

  Art, Business, Men

  William Blake (1966). “Complete Writings: With Variant Readings”, p.777, Oxford University Press, USA

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• Forgive what you do not approve & love me for this energetic exertion of my talent

  William Blake

  Forgiving, Talent, Energetic

  William Blake, W. H. Stevenson (2007). “Blake: The Complete Poems”, p.659, Pearson Education

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• He who would do good to another must do it in minute particulars.

  William Blake

  Hypocrite, Action, Minutes

  Jerusalem ch. 3, plate 55, l. 60 (1815)

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• Commerce is so far from being beneficial to arts, or to empire, that it is destructive of both, as all their history shows, for the above reason of individual merit being its great hatred. Empires flourish till they become commercial, and then they are scattered abroad to the four winds.

  William Blake

  Art, Business, Wind

  William Blake (1988). “William Blake”, Oxford University Press, USA

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• O thou with dewy locks, who lookest down
  Thro' the clear windows of the morning, turn
  Thine angel eyes upon our western isle,
  Which in full choir hails thy approach, O Spring!
  
  The hills tell each other, and the listening
  Valleys hear; all our longing eyes are turned
  Up to thy bright pavilions: issue forth,
  And let thy holy feet visit our clime.
  
  Come o'er the eastern hills, and let our winds
  Kiss thy perfumed garments; let us taste
  Thy morn and evening breath; scatter thy pearls
  Upon our love-sick land that mourns for thee.

  William Blake

  Morning, Spring, Eye

  William Blake (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of William Blake (Illustrated)”, p.18, Delphi Classics

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• 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.

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• 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

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• Oh! why was I born with a different face? why was I not born like the rest of my race? when I look,each one starts! when I speak, I offend; then Im silent & passive & lose every friend. Then my verse I dishonour, my pictures despise, my person degrade & my temper chastise; and the pen is my terror, the pencil my shame; all my talents I bury, and dead is my fame. Im either too low or too highly prized; when elate I m envy'd, when meek Im despis'd

  William Blake

  Race, Different Faces, Envy

  William Blake (2000). “The Selected Poems of William Blake”, p.149, Wordsworth Editions

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• O why was I born with a different face? Why was I not born like the rest of my race?

  William Blake

  Different Faces, Race, Born

  In Letter to Thomas Butts, 16 August 1803

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• Christianity is art and not money. Money is its curse.

  William Blake

  Art, Money, Christianity

  William Blake, David Fuller (2000). “William Blake: Selected Poetry and Prose”, p.360, Pearson Education

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• Holy, holy, holy is the Lord God Almighty !

  William Blake

  Lord, Holy, Almighty

  'A Vision of the Last Judgement' (1810) in 'MS Note-Book' p. 95

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• Listen to the fool's reproach! It is a kingly title!

  William Blake

  Titles, Fool, Reproach

  William Blake (1977). “The Portable William Blake”, p.185, Penguin

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• In seed time learn, in harvest teach, in winter enjoy.

  William Blake

  Life, Thinking Of You, Nature

  William Blake, William Butler Yeats (1905). “Collected Poems”, p.165, Psychology Press

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• Energy is the only life, and is from the body; and reason is the bound or outward circumference of energy. Energy is eternal delight.

  William Blake

  Energy, Delight, Body

  William Blake, W. H. Stevenson (2007). “Blake: The Complete Poems”, p.111, Pearson Education

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• Knowledge of ideal beauty is not to be acquired. It is born with us. Innate ideas are in every man, born with him; theyare truly himself.

  William Blake

  Men, Ideas, Born

  William Blake (1966). “Complete Writings: With Variant Readings”, p.459, Oxford University Press, USA

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• He who shall hurt the little wren Shall never be beloved by men.

  William Blake

  Hurt, Men, Wrens

  'Auguries of Innocence' (c.1803) l. 29

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• What seems to be, is, to those to whom it seems to be, and is productive of the most dreadful consequences to those to whom it seems to be, even of torments, despair, eternal death.

  William Blake

  Death, Despair, Torment

  William Blake (2008). “The Complete Poetry and Prose of William Blake”, p.179, Univ of California Press

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• Jesus & his apostles & disciples were all artists

  William Blake

  Jesus, Artist, Disciple

  William Blake, Robert N. Essick, Joseph Viscomi (1998). “Milton a Poem, and the Final Illuminated Works: The Ghost of Abel, On Homers Poetry, [and] On Virgil, Laocoön”, p.232, Princeton University Press

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• Lo! now the direful monster, whose skin clings
  To his strong bones, strides o'er the groaning rocks:
  He withers all in silence, and his hand
  Unclothes the earth, and freezes up frail life.

  William Blake

  Strong, Winter, Rocks

  William Blake (2005). “Collected Poems”, p.5, Routledge

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

  William Blake

  Animal, Heaven, Humanity

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

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• I am really sorry to see my countrymen trouble themselves about politics. If men were wise, the most arbitrary princes could not hurt them. If they are not wise, the freest government is compelled to be a tyranny. Princes appear to me to be fools. Houses of Commons and Houses of Lords appear to me to be fools; they seem to me to be something else besides human life.

  William Blake

  Wise, Hurt, Sorry

  William Blake (1988). “William Blake”, Oxford University Press, USA

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• If the doors of perception were cleansed everything would appear to man as it is, infinite.
  For man has closed himself up, till he sees all things thru chinks of his cavern.

  William Blake

  Beautiful, Eye, Men

  "A Memorable Fancy". "The Marriage of Heaven and Hell". Book by William Blake, www.bartleby.com. 1793.

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• Travelers repose and dream among my leaves.

  William Blake

  Dream, Travel, Journey

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• Poetry fettered, fetters the human race. Nations are destroyed or flourish in proportion as their poetry, painting, and music are destroyed or flourish.

  William Blake

  Race, Painting, Proportion

  William Blake (2005). “Collected Poems”, p.201, Routledge

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