William Blake
For everything exists and not one sigh nor smile nor tear, one hair nor particle of dust, not one can pass away.Collection: Truth
The reason Milton wrote in fetters when he wrote of Angels and God, and at liberty when of Devils and Hell, is because he was a true poet and of the Devil's party without knowing it.Collection: Party
[L]et light Rise from the chambers of the east, and bring The honey'd dew that cometh on waking day. O radiant morning.Collection: Morning
The pure soul shall mount on native wings, . . . and cut a path into the heaven of glory.Collection: Cutting
When a Man has Married a WifeHe finds out whetherHer Knees & elbows are onlyglued together.Collection: Men
O Winter! bar thine adamantine doors: The north is thine; there hast thou build thy dark, Deep-founded habitation. Shake not thy roofs, Nor bend thy pillars with thine iron car.Collection: Dark
A skylark wounded in the wing, / A cherubim does cease to sing.Collection: Wings
The fields from Islington to Marybone, To Primrose Hill and Saint John's Wood, Were builded over with pillars of gold; And there Jerusalem's pillars stood.Collection: Gold
Imitation is criticism.Collection: Criticism
Can I see another's woe, And not be in sorrow too? Can I see another's grief, And not seek for kind relief? Can I see a falling tear, And not feel my sorrow's share? Can a father see his child Weep, nor be with sorrow filled? Can a mother sit and hear An infant groan, an infant fear? No, no! never can it be! Never, never can it be!Collection: Mother
Works of Art can only be produc'd in Perfection where the Man is either in Affluence or is Above the Care of it.Collection: Art
And priests in black gowns were walking their rounds and binding with briars my joys and desires. (from 'The Garden of Love')Collection: Garden
Little Lamb, who made thee? Dost thou know who made thee?Collection: Sheep
Thou fair-hair'd angel of the evening, Now, whilst the sun rests on the mountains, light Thy bright torch of love; thy radiant crown Put on, and smile upon our evening bed!Collection: Angel
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.Collection: Love
One Power alone makes a Poet: Imagination. The Divine Vision.Collection: Imagination
My mother groaned, my father wept, into the dangerous world I leapt.Collection: Birthday
The inquiry in England is not whether a man has talents and genius, but whether he is passive and polite and a virtuous ass and obedient to noblemen's opinions in art and science. If he is, he is a good man. If not, he must be starved.Collection: Respect
Pay attention to minute particulars. Take care of the little ones. Generalization and abstraction are the plea of the hypocrite, scoundrel, and knave.Collection: Hypocrite
Some will say, Is not God alone the Prolific? I answer, God only Acts & Is, in existing beings or Men.Collection: Men
A DIVINE IMAGE Cruelty has a human heart, And Jealousy a human face; Terror the human form divine, And Secresy the human dress. The human dress is forged iron, The human form a fiery forge, The human face a furnace sealed, The human heart its hungry gorge.Collection: Heart
The fox condemns the trap, not himself.Collection: Foxes
The crow wished everything was black, the Owl, that everything was white.Collection: Animal
Does a firm persuasion that a thing is so, make it so?Collection: Doe
thus men forgot that all deities reside in the human breast.Collection: Men
Without contraries there is no progression.Collection: Progression
Life delights in life.Collection: Delight
I care not whether a man is good or evil; all that I care / Is whether he is a wise man or a fool. Go! put off holiness, / And put on intellect.Collection: Wise
When nations grow old the Arts grow cold And commerce settles on every treeCollection: Art
The worship of God is, Honouring his gifts in other men each according to his genius, and loving the greatest men best; those who envy or calumniate great men hate God, for there is no other God.Collection: Hate
He who has suffered you to impose on him knows you.Collection: Suffering
The Goddess Fortune is the devil's servant, ready to kiss any one's ass.Collection: God
For all eternity, I forgive you and you forgive me.Collection: Forgive Me
Gratitude is heaven itself.Collection: Thanksgiving
The eye sees more than the heart knows.Collection: Heart
LOVE'S SECRET Never seek to tell thy love, Love that never told can be; For the gentle wind doth move Silently, invisibly. I told my love, I told my love, I told her all my heart, Trembling, cold, in ghastly fears. Ah! she did depart! Soon after she was gone from me, A traveller came by, Silently, invisibly: He took her with a sigh.Collection: Moving
Nothing can be more contemptible than to suppose Public Records to be true.Collection: Records
Down the winding cavern we groped our tedious way, till a void boundless as the nether sky appeared beneath us, and we held by the roots of trees and hung over this immensity; but I said: if you please we will commit ourselves to this void and see whether providence is here also.Collection: Sky
Those who restrain desire, do so because theirs is weak enough to be restrained; and the restrainer or reason usurps its place & governs the unwilling. And being restrain'd it by degrees becomes passive till it is only the shadow of desire.Collection: Shadow
All wholesome food is caught without a net or trap.Collection: Goodness
Children of the future age Reading this indignant page Know that in a former time Love, sweet love, was thought a crimeCollection: Sweet
Hindsight is a wonderful thing but foresight is better, especially when it comes to saving life, or some pain!Collection: Pain
I must create a system, or be enslav'd by another man's.Collection: Fear
The Man who never in his Mind & Thoughts travel'd to Heaven Is No Artist.Collection: Travel