William Blake
O Earth, O Earth, return! Arise from out the dewy grass; Night is worn; And the morn Rises from the slumbrous mass.Collection: Morning
Men are admitted into heaven not because they have curbed and governed their passions or have no passions, but because they have cultivated their understandings. The treasures of heaven are not negations of passion, but realities of intellect, from which all the passions emanate uncurbed in their eternal glory.Collection: Passion
A tyrant is the worst disease, and the cause of all others.Collection: Tyrants
The world of imagination is the world of eternity. It is the divine bosom into which we shall all go after death of the vegetative body.Collection: Imagination
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.Collection: Love
Some say that happiness is not good for mortals, & they ought to be answered that sorrow is not fit for immortals & is utterly useless to any one; a blight never does good to a tree, & if a blight kill not a tree but it still bear fruit, let none say that the fruit was in consequence of the blight.Collection: Happiness
Man has closed himself up, till he sees all things thro' narrow chinks of his cavern.Collection: Men
The Errors of a Wise Man make your Rule Rather than the Perfections of a Fool.Collection: Wise
Does a firm persuasion that a thing is so, make it so?" He replied, "All poets believe it does. And in ages of imagination, this firm persuasion removes mountains; but many are not capable of firm persuasion of anything.Collection: Believe
To be an Error and to be Cast out is a part of God's Design.Collection: Errors
To see a world in a grain of sand and a heaven in a wildflower.Collection: Nature
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.Collection: Lying
To cast aside from Poetry, all that is not InspirationCollection: Inspiration
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.Collection: Eye
He who pretends to be either painter or engraver without being a master of drawing is an imposter.Collection: Drawing
She who dwells with me whom I have loved with such communion, that no place on earth can ever be solitude to me.Collection: Marriage
The Fool shall not enter into Heaven let him be ever so Holy.Collection: Heaven
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.Collection: Wall
I'm sure this Jesus will not do Either for Englishman or Jew.Collection: Jesus
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.Collection: Cities
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.Collection: Drunk
Time is the Mercy of EternityCollection: Mercy
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.Collection: Tears
The vision of Christ that thou dost see Is my vision's greatest enemy.Collection: Enemy
Since the French Revolution Englishmen are all intermeasurable one by another, certainly a happy state of agreement to which I forone do not agree.Collection: Agreement
Thou art a man God is no more Thy own humanity Learn to adoreCollection: Art
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?Collection: Time
Praises reap not! Joys laugh not! Sorrows weep not!Collection: Laughing
God and His Priest and King,...make up a heaven of our misery.Collection: Kings
The mocker of Art is the mocker of Jesus.Collection: Jesus
The lust of the goat is the bounty of God.Collection: Lust
Sooner strangle an infant in its cradle than nurse unacted desires.Collection: Nurse
Every thing possible to be believ'd is an image of truth.Collection: Truth
The human mind cannot go beyond the gift of God, the Holy Ghost. To suppose that art can go beyond the finest specimens of art that are now in the world is not knowing what art is; it is being blind to the gifts of the spirit.Collection: Art
The Sick Rose O Rose, thou art sick. The invisible worm That flies in the night In the howling storm Has found out thy bed Of crimson joy, And his dark secret love Does thy life destroy.Collection: Life
The cut worm forgives the plow.Collection: Happiness
First thought is best in Art, second in other matters.Collection: Inspirational
The cistern contains: The fountain overflows.Collection: God
Invention depends altogether upon execution or organization; as that is right or wrong so is the invention perfect or imperfect.Collection: Organization
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.Collection: Moving
Energy is an eternal delight.Collection: Energy
The Angel that presided o'er my birth Said, 'Little creature, formed of joy and mirth, Go love without the help of any thing on earth'.Collection: Love
Without minute neatness of execution, the sublime cannot exist! Grandeur of ideas is founded on precision of ideas.Collection: Ideas
And I watered it in fears, Night and morning with my tears; And I sunned it with smiles, And with soft deceitful wiles.Collection: Morning
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.Collection: Art