William Blake Quotes - Page 16

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• Father, O father! what do we here
  In this land of unbelief and fear?

  William Blake

  Fear, Father, Land

  William Blake (2005). “Collected Poems”, p.90, Routledge

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• Christ's crucifix shall be made an excuse for executing criminals.

  William Blake

  Judging, Criminals, Excuse

  William Blake (1966). “Complete Writings: With Variant Readings”, p.380, Oxford University Press, USA

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• To my eye Rubens' colouring is most contemptible. His shadows are a filthy brown somewhat the colour of excrement.

  William Blake

  Eye, Criticism, Shadow

  William Blake, David V. Erdman, Harold Bloom (1982). “The Complete Poetry and Prose of William Blake”, p.655, Univ of California Press

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• 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)

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• I asked a thief to steal me a peach: He turned up his eyes. I asked a lithe lady to lie her down: Holy and meek, she cries. As soon as I went An angel came. He winked at the thief And smiled at the dame- And without one word spoke Had a peach from the tree, And 'twixt earnest and joke Enjoyed the lady.

  William Blake

  Lying, Eye, Angel

  William Blake, W. H. Stevenson (2007). “Blake: The Complete Poems”, p.153, Pearson Education

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• To cast aside from Poetry, all that is not Inspiration

  William Blake

  Inspiration, Casts

  William Blake, Michael Mason (1998). “Selected Poetry”, p.170, Oxford University Press, USA

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• The gulfing whale was like a dot in the spell. Yet look upon it, and 'twould size and swell To its huge self, and the minutest fish Would pass the very hardest gazer's wish, And show his little eye's anatomy.

  William Blake

  Eye, Self, Whales

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• He who pretends to be either painter or engraver without being a master of drawing is an imposter.

  William Blake

  Drawing, Masters, Painter

  William Blake (2008). “The Complete Poetry and Prose of William Blake”, p.574, Univ of California Press

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• 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

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• The grave is Heaven's golden gate,
  And rich and poor around it wait;
  O Shepherdess of England's fold,
  Behold this gate of pearl and gold!

  William Blake

  Waiting, Heaven, Gold

  William Blake, William Butler Yeats (2002). “Collected Poems”, p.134, Psychology Press

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• She who dwells with me whom I have loved with such communion, that no place on earth can ever be solitude to me.

  William Blake

  Marriage, Solitude, Earth

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• 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

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• I'm sure this Jesus will not do Either for Englishman or Jew.

  William Blake

  Jesus, Judaism, Jew

  'The Everlasting Gospel' (c.1818) (f) l. 1

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• To Chloe's breast young Cupid slily stole,
  But he crept in at Myra's pocket-hole.

  William Blake

  Life, Pockets, Chloe

  William Blake (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of William Blake (Illustrated)”, p.809, Delphi Classics

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• 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)

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• The ancient Poets animated all sensible objects with Gods or Geniuses, calling them by the names and adorning them with the properties of woods, rivers, mountains, lakes, cities, nations, and whatever their enlarged & numerous senses could perceive.

  William Blake

  Cities, Names, Rivers

  William Blake (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of William Blake (Illustrated)”, p.204, Delphi Classics

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• All pictures that's painted with sense and with thought / Are painted by madmen as sure as a groat; / For the greater the fool in the pencil more blest, / And when they are drunk they always paint best.

  William Blake

  Drunk, Fool, Paint

  William Blake, W. H. Stevenson (2007). “Blake: The Complete Poems”, p.641, Pearson Education

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• Thou art a man God is no more Thy own humanity Learn to adore

  William Blake

  Art, Men, Humanity

  William Blake, W. H. Stevenson (2007). “Blake: The Complete Poems”, p.908, Pearson Education

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• If you trap the moment before it's ripe, The tears of repentence you'll certainly wipe; But if once you let the ripe moment go You can never wipe off the tears of woe.

  William Blake

  Tears, Wipe, Woe

  William Blake (1977). “The Portable William Blake”, p.103, Penguin

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• Since the French Revolution Englishmen are all intermeasurable one by another, certainly a happy state of agreement to which I forone do not agree.

  William Blake

  Agreement, Revolution, England

  William Blake (2008). “The Complete Poetry and Prose of William Blake”, p.783, Univ of California Press

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• The vision of Christ that thou dost see Is my vision's greatest enemy.

  William Blake

  Enemy, Vision, Christ

  'The Everlasting Gospel' (c.1818) (a) l. 1

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• Praises reap not! Joys laugh not! Sorrows weep not!

  William Blake

  Laughing, Joy, Sorrow

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

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• 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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• 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

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• The mocker of Art is the mocker of Jesus.

  William Blake

  Jesus, Art, Art Is

  William Blake (2008). “The Complete Poetry and Prose of William Blake”, p.767, Univ of California Press

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