William Blake

From the works of the poet & painter William Blake

[The Blake Society @Blake_Society]

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[William Blake @W_BlakeQuotes]

A truth that's told with bad intent
Beats all the lies you can invent.

[William Blake @W_BlakeQuotes]

What immortal hand or eye
Could frame thy fearful symmetry?
In what distant deeps or skies
Burnt the fire of thine eyes?

[TS Eliot @TSElibot]

Those who have crossed / Remember us - if at all - not as lost / Violent souls, but only / As the hollow men / The stuffed men.

[William Blake @W_BlakeQuotes]

...While the Lilly white, shall in Love delight, Nor a thorn nor a threat stain her beauty bright.

[William Blake @W_BlakeQuotes]

The modest Rose puts forth a thorn:
The humble Sheep, a threatning horn:...

[William Blake @W_BlakeQuotes]

Love that never told can be.

[William Blake @W_BlakeQuotes]

The imagination is not a State: it is the Human Existence itself.

[William Blake @W_BlakeQuotes]

I lost a brother, and with his spirit I converse daily and hourly and see him in my remembrance, in the region of my imagination.

[William Blake @W_BlakeQuotes]

I saw no God, nor heard any, in a finite organical perception; but my senses discover'd the infinite in every thing.

[William Blake @W_BlakeQuotes]

The apple tree never asks the beech how he shall grow, nor the lion, the horse, how he shall take his prey.

[William Blake @W_BlakeQuotes]

Expect poison from standing water.

[William Blake @W_BlakeQuotes]

He who desires, but acts not, breeds pestilence.

[William Blake @W_BlakeQuotes]

One law for the Lion and Ox is oppression.

[W. B. Yeats @Yeats_Quotes]

Who mocks at music mocks at love

[William Blake @W_BlakeQuotes]

...But though calm and warm the waters wide,
I could not get to the other side.

[William Blake @W_BlakeQuotes]

Dear child, I also by pleasant streams
Have wandered all night in the Land of Dreams...

[Dostoevsky Daily @DostoevskyDaily]

Even in sorrow life is sweet; life is sweet, however one lives.

[Dostoevsky Daily @DostoevskyDaily]

Love the animals: God has given them the rudiments of thought and joy untroubled.

[Dostoevsky Daily @DostoevskyDaily]

Fling yourself into life without deliberation; don’t be afraid -- the flood will bear you to the bank and set you safe on your feet again.