WILLIAM BLAKE (1757-1827), ENGLISH ENGRAVER, ARTIST, MYSTIC AND A SEMINAL POETIC FIGURE OF THE 19TH CENTURY ROMANTIC MOVEMENT.
“Tyger! Tyger! burning bright
In the forests of the night,
What immortal hand or eye
Could frame thy fearful symmetry?”
“To see a World in a Grain of Sand
And a Heaven in a Wild Flower
Hold Infinity in the palm of your hand
And Eternity in an hour.”
“A truth that's told with bad intent
Beats all the lies you can invent.”
“Those who restrain desire do so because theirs is weak enough to be restrained.”
“If the doors of perception were cleansed everything would appear to man as it is, infinite.
For man has closed himself up till he sees all things thro’ narrow chinks of his cavern.”
“The man who never alters his opinion is like standing water, and breeds reptiles of the mind.”
“Every Night and every Morn
Some to Misery are born.
Every Morn and every Night
Some are born to Sweet Delight,
Some are born to Endless Night.”
“Love seeketh not itself to please,
Nor for itself hath any care,
But for another gives its ease,
And builds a Heaven in Hell's despair”
“My mother groand! my father wept.
Into the dangerous world I leapt:
Helpless, naked, piping loud;
Like a fiend hid in a cloud.”
“The road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom”
“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.”
“The buried soul and all its gems.
This life’s five windows of the soul
Distorts the Heavens from pole to pole,
And leads you to believe a lie
When you see with, not thro’, the eye”
“And we are put on earth a little space,
That we may learn to bear the beams of love,”
“Man was made for Joy & Woe
And when this we rightly know
Thro the World we safely go
Joy & Woe are woven fine
A Clothing for the soul divine”
“Never seek to tell thy love
Love that never told can be
For the gentle wind does move
Silently invisibly”
“For Mercy has a human heart,
Pity a human face,
And Love, the human form divine,
And Peace, the human dress”
“The Lamb misusd breeds Public Strife
And yet forgives the Butchers knife”
“Children of the future age,
Reading this indignant page,
Know that in a former time,
Love, sweet Love, was thought a crime!”
“And I waterd it in fears,
Night & morning with my tears:
And I sunned it with smiles,
And with soft deceitful wiles.”
“I will not cease from Mental Fight,
Nor shall my sword sleep in my hand:
Till we have built Jerusalem,
In Englands green & pleasant Land.”
“The Princes Robes & Beggars Rags
Are Toadstools on the Misers Bags
A Truth thats told with bad intent
Beats all the Lies you can invent”
“The nakedness of woman is the work of God.”
“Tyger! Tyger! burning bright
In the forests of the night,
What immortal hand or eye
Could frame thy fearful symmetry?”
~ William Blake, The Tyger
“To see a World in a Grain of Sand
And a Heaven in a Wild Flower
Hold Infinity in the palm of your hand
And Eternity in an hour.”
~ William Blake, Auguries of Innocence
“A truth that's told with bad intent
Beats all the lies you can invent.”
~ William Blake, Auguries of Innocence
“Those who restrain desire do so because theirs is weak enough to be restrained.”
~ William Blake, The Marriage of Heaven and Hell
“If the doors of perception were cleansed everything would appear to man as it is, infinite.
For man has closed himself up till he sees all things thro’ narrow chinks of his cavern.”
~ William Blake, The Marriage of Heaven and Hell
“The man who never alters his opinion is like standing water, and breeds reptiles of the mind.”
~ William Blake, The Marriage of Heaven and Hell
“Every Night and every Morn
Some to Misery are born.
Every Morn and every Night
Some are born to Sweet Delight,
Some are born to Endless Night.”
~ William Blake, Auguries of Innocence
“Love seeketh not itself to please,
Nor for itself hath any care,
But for another gives its ease,
And builds a Heaven in Hell's despair”
~ William Blake, The Clod and the Pebble
“My mother groand! my father wept.
Into the dangerous world I leapt:
Helpless, naked, piping loud;
Like a fiend hid in a cloud.”
~ William Blake, Infant Sorrow
“The road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom”
~ William Blake, Proverbs of Hell from The Marriage of Heaven and Hell
“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.”
~ William Blake, Eternity
“The buried soul and all its gems.
This life’s five windows of the soul
Distorts the Heavens from pole to pole,
And leads you to believe a lie
When you see with, not thro’, the eye”
~ William Blake, The Everlasting Gospel
“And we are put on earth a little space,
That we may learn to bear the beams of love,”
~ William Blake, The Little Black Boy
“Man was made for Joy & Woe
And when this we rightly know
Thro the World we safely go
Joy & Woe are woven fine
A Clothing for the soul divine”
~ William Blake, Auguries of Innocence
“Never seek to tell thy love
Love that never told can be
For the gentle wind does move
Silently invisibly”
~ William Blake, Never Seek to Tell thy Love
“For Mercy has a human heart,
Pity a human face,
And Love, the human form divine,
And Peace, the human dress”
~ William Blake, The Divine Image
“The Lamb misusd breeds Public Strife
And yet forgives the Butchers knife”
~ William Blake, Auguries of Innocence
“Children of the future age,
Reading this indignant page,
Know that in a former time,
Love, sweet Love, was thought a crime!”
~ William Blake, A Little Girl Lost
“And I waterd it in fears,
Night & morning with my tears:
And I sunned it with smiles,
And with soft deceitful wiles.”
~ William Blake, A Poison Tree
“I will not cease from Mental Fight,
Nor shall my sword sleep in my hand:
Till we have built Jerusalem,
In Englands green & pleasant Land.”
~ William Blake, Jerusalem
“The Princes Robes & Beggars Rags
Are Toadstools on the Misers Bags
A Truth thats told with bad intent
Beats all the Lies you can invent”
~ William Blake, Auguries of Innocence
“The nakedness of woman is the work of God.”
~ William Blake, The Marriage of Heaven and Hell
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