WILLIAM BLAKE QUOTES III

English poet & painter (1757-1827)

Can I see another's woe,
And not be in sorrow too?
Can I see another's grief,
And not seek for kind relief?

WILLIAM BLAKE

"The Divine Image", Songs of Innocence


You never know what is enough unless you know what is more than enough.

WILLIAM BLAKE

Proverbs of Hell


One thought fills immensity.

WILLIAM BLAKE

Proverbs of Hell


Cherish pity, lest you drive an angel from ye door.

WILLIAM BLAKE

"Holy Thursday"


The true method of knowledge is experiment.

WILLIAM BLAKE

All Religions are One


Degrade first the arts if you'd mankind degrade,
Hire idiots to paint with cold light and hot shade.

WILLIAM BLAKE

Annotations to Sir Joshua Reynolds's Discourses


It is not because angels are holier than men or devils that makes them angels, but because they do not expect holiness from one another, but from God only.

WILLIAM BLAKE

A Vision of the Last Judgment


For a tear is an intellectual thing,
And a sigh is the sword of an Angel King,
And the bitter groan of the martyr's woe
Is an arrow from the Almighty's bow.

WILLIAM BLAKE

"The Gray Monk", Poems from the Pickering Manuscript


To Generalize is to be an Idiot. To Particularize is the Alone Distinction of Merit.

WILLIAM BLAKE

Annotations to Sir Joshua Reynolds's Discourses


A dog starved at his master's gate
Predicts the ruin of the state.

WILLIAM BLAKE

Auguries of Innocence


Where lambs have nibbled, silent moves
The feet of angels bright;
Unseen they pour blessing,
And joy without ceasing,
On each bud and blossom,
And each sleeping bosom.

WILLIAM BLAKE

Night


A robin redbreast in a cage
Puts all Heaven in a rage.

WILLIAM BLAKE

Auguries of Innocence


Cruelty has a human heart,
And Jealousy a human face;
Terror the human form divine,
And Secrecy the human dress.

WILLIAM BLAKE

"A Divine Image", Songs of Experience


If a thing loves, it is infinite.

WILLIAM BLAKE

Annotations to Swedenborg


The busy bee has no time for sorrow.

WILLIAM BLAKE

Proverbs of Hell


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

Auguries of Innocence


He who shall teach the child to doubt
The rotting grave shall ne'er get out.

WILLIAM BLAKE

Auguries of Innocence


Pity must join together those whom wrath has torn in sunder.

WILLIAM BLAKE

Jerusalem: The Emanation of the Giant Albion


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

introduction, Songs of Innocence


Bit from the dolorous groan on high a shadow of smoke appeared,
And human bones rattling together in the smoke and stamping
The nether abyss, and gnashing in fierce despair, and panting in sobs,
Thick, short, incessant, bursting, sobbing, deep despairing, stamping,
Struggling to utter the voice of man, to take features of man,
To take the limbs of man.

WILLIAM BLAKE

Vala