William Blake
How sweet I roamed from field to field, And tasted all the summer's pride, Till I the prince of love beheld, Who in the sunny beams did glide!Collection: Love
I turn my eyes to the schools & universities of Europe And there behold the loom of Locke whose woof rages dire, Washed by the water-wheels of Newton. Black the cloth In heavy wreaths folds over every nation; cruel works Of many wheels I view, wheel without wheel, with cogs tyrannic Moving by compulsion each other: not as those in Eden, which Wheel within wheel in freedom revolve, in harmony & peace.Collection: Education
Piping down the valleys wild, Piping songs of pleasant glee, On a cloud I saw a child, And he laughing said to me: "Pipe a song about a Lamb." So I piped with merry cheer; "Piper, pipe that song again." So I piped; he wept to hear.Collection: Song
For Mercy has a human heart Pity, a human face: And Love, the human form divine, And Peace, the human dress.Collection: Love
I heard an Angel singing; When the day was springing, Mercy, Pity, Peace; Is the world's release.Collection: Angel
Bring me my bow of burning gold: Bring me my arrows of desire: Bring me my spear: O clouds, unfold! Bring me my chariot of fire.Collection: Fire
And I made a rural pen, And I stained the water clear, And I wrote my happy songs Every Child may joy to hear.Collection: Song
God is the poetic genius in each of us.Collection: Genius
If you cannot imagine with the mind's eye much more than you can see with the mortal eye, you have a very poor imagination indeed.Collection: Eye
If the lion was advised by the fox, he would be cunning.Collection: Would Be
As a man is, so he sees.Collection: Motivational
What is it men in women do require: The lineaments of gratified desire. What is it women do in men require: The lineaments of gratified desire.Collection: Men
General knowledges are those knowledges that idiots possess.Collection: Idiot
Pride is a personal commitment. It is an attitude which separates excellence from mediocrity.Collection: Attitude
The most sublime act is to set another before you.Collection: Sacrifice
The nakedness of woman is the work of God.Collection: Beauty
Error is created; truth is eternal.Collection: Truth
The naked women's body is a portion of eternity too great for the eye of man.Collection: Eye
The eagle never lost so much time as when he submitted to learn of the crowCollection: Life
Improvement makes strait roads, but the crooked roads without Improvement, are roads of Genius.Collection: Engineering
This life's dim windows of the soul Distorts the heavens from pole to pole And leads you to believe a lie When you see with, not through, the eye.Collection: Life
The strongest poison ever known came from Caesar's laurel crown.Collection: Poison
The moon, like a flower in heaven's high bower, with silent delight sits and smiles on the night.Collection: Flower
We are led to believe a lie When we see not through the eye.Collection: Lying
Wisdom is sold in a desolate marketplace where none can come to buy.Collection: Marketplace
Those who enter the gates of heaven are not beings who have no passions or who have curbed the passions, but those who have cultivated an understanding of them.Collection: Inspirational
I am more famed in Heaven for my works than I could well conceive. In my brain are studies & chambers filled with books & pictures of old, which I wrote and painted in ages of Eternity before my mortal life; and whose works are the delight & study of Archangels. Why, then, should I be anxious about the riches or fame of mortality?Collection: Book
Gratitude is heaven itself; there could be no heaven without gratitude.Collection: Gratitude
As the caterpillar chooses the fairest leaves to lay her eggs on, so the priest lays his curse on the fairest joys.Collection: Atheist
I went to the Garden of Love, And saw what I never had seen: A Chapel was built in the midst, Where I used to play on the green. And the gates of this Chapel were shut, And 'Thou shalt not' writ over the door; So I turn'd to the Garden of Love, That so many sweet flowers bore. And I saw it was filled with graves, And tomb-stones where flowers should be: And Priests in black gowns, were walking their rounds, And binding with briars, my joys & desires.Collection: Sweet
To me this world is all one continued vision of fancy or imagination, and I feel flattered when I am told so. What is it sets Homer, Virgil and Milton in so high a rank of art? Why is the Bible more entertaining and instructive than any other book? Is it not because they are addressed to the imagination, which is spiritual sensation, and but immediately to the understanding or reason?Collection: Bible
He who has few things to desire cannot have many to fear.Collection: Desire
Execution is the chariot of genius.Collection: Science
The pride of the peacock is the glory of God. The lust of the goat is the bounty of God. The wrath of the lion is the wisdom of God. The nakedness of woman is the work of God.Collection: Wisdom
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.Collection: Thinking
Mercy, pity, and peace, Are the world's release.Collection: World
Shame is pride's cloak.Collection: Pride
Every mortal loss is an immortal gain.Collection: Loss
Thy friendship oft has made my heart to ache: do be my enemy for friendship's sake.Collection: Friendship
He who wants, but doesn't act, is a pest.Collection: Inspirational
More! More! is the cry of a mistaken soul.Collection: Wisdom
Mercy is the golden chain by which society is bound together.Collection: Inspirational
You smile with pomp and rigor, you talk of benevolence and virtue; I act with benevolence and virtue and get murdered time after time.Collection: Feelings
Let every Christian, as much as in him lies, engage himself openly and publicly, before all the World, in some mental pursuit for the Building up of Jerusalem.Collection: Christian