William Blake Quotes, Stars Quotes, Heaven Quotes

When the stars threw down their spears, and watered heaven with their tears, did he smile his work to see? Did he who made the Lamb make thee?

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : William Blake Quotes , Stars Quotes , Heaven Quotes

Desperate remorse swallows the present in a quenchless rage.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : William Blake Quotes , Future Quotes , Desperate Quotes

You cannot have Liberty in this world without what you call Moral Virtue, and you cannot have Moral Virtue without the slavery of that half of the human race who hate what you call Moral Virtue.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : William Blake Quotes , Hate Quotes , Artist Quotes

The Man who pretends to be a modest enquirer into the truth of a self-evident thing is a Knave.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : William Blake Quotes , Men Quotes , Self Quotes

He who binds to himself a joy Does the winged life destroy; But he who kisses the joy as it flies Lives in eternity's sun rise.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : William Blake Quotes , Life Quotes , Happiness Quotes

Innocence dwells with Wisdom, but never with ignorance.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : William Blake Quotes , Ignorance Quotes

Art is the tree of life. Science is the tree of death.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : William Blake Quotes , Death Quotes , Art Quotes

For Mercy has a human heart Pity, a human face: And Love, the human form divine, And Peace, the human dress.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : William Blake Quotes , Love Quotes , Jealousy Quotes

When Sir Joshua Reynolds died All Nature was degraded; The King dropped a tear in the Queen's ear, And all his pictures faded.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : William Blake Quotes , Kings Quotes , Queens Quotes

God keep me from the divinity of Yes and Nothe Yea Nay Creeping Jesus, from supposing Up and Down to be the same thing as allexperimentalists must suppose.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : William Blake Quotes , Jesus Quotes , Divinity Quotes

Nothing can be more contemptible than to suppose Public Records to be true.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : William Blake Quotes , Records Quotes , Bureaucracy Quotes

Energy is an eternal delight.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : William Blake Quotes , Energy Quotes , Delight Quotes

If a thing loves, it is infinite.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : William Blake Quotes , Love Quotes , Educational Quotes

The Prophets Isaiah and Ezekiel dined with me, and I asked them how they dared so roundly to assert, that God spoke to them; and whether they did not think at the time, that they would be misunderstood, & so be the cause of imposition. Isaiah answer'd, I saw no God, nor heard any, in a finite organical perception; but my senses discover'd the infinite in every thing, and as I was then persuaded, & remain confirm'd; that the voice of honest indignation is the voice of God, I cared not for consequences but wrote.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : William Blake Quotes , Thinking Quotes , Ezekiel Quotes

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.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : William Blake Quotes , Art Quotes , Business Quotes

Love seeketh only self to please, To bind another to its delight, Joys in another's loss of ease, And builds a Hell in Heaven's despite.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : William Blake Quotes , Love Quotes , Loss Quotes

O God, protect me from my friends, that they have not power over me. Thou hast giv'n me power to protect myself from thy bitterest enemies.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : William Blake Quotes , Friendship Quotes , Enemy Quotes

The person who does not believe in miracles surely makes it certain that he or she will never take part in one.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : William Blake Quotes , Believe Quotes , Miracle Quotes

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.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : William Blake Quotes , Eye Quotes , Self Quotes

My silks and fine array, My smiles and languished air, By love are driv'n away And mournful lean Despair Brings me yew to deck my grave: Such end true lovers have.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : William Blake Quotes , Love Quotes , Air Quotes