Quotes

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"http://www.poemhunter.com/william-blake/quotations/page-7/# Tiger, Tiger, burning bright
In the forests of the night,
What immortal hand or eye
Could frame thy fearful symmetry?"
William Blake (1757-1827), British poet, painter, mystic. The Tiger (l. 1-4). . . The Complete Poems [William Blake]. Alicia Ostriker, ed. (1977) Penguin Books.

 

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"O thou, with dewy locks, who lookest down
Through the clear windows of the morning; turn
Thine angel eyes upon our western isle,
Which in full choir hails thy approach, O Spring!"
William Blake (1757-1827), British poet, painter, mystic. To Spring (l. 1-4). . . The Complete Poems [William Blake]. Alicia Ostriker, ed. (1977) Penguin Books.

 

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"Mock on, mock on, Voltaire, Rousseau!
Mock on, mock on—'Tis all in vain!"
William Blake (1757-1827), British poet, painter, mystic. Mock On, Mock On, Voltaire, Rousseau (l. 1-2). . . The Complete Poems [William Blake]. Alicia Ostriker, ed. (1977) Penguin Books.

 

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"Thou Fair-haired Angel of the Evening,
Now, whilst the sun rests on the mountains, light
Thy bright torch of love; thy radiant crownhttp://www.poemhunter.com/william-blake/quotations/page-7/#
Put on, and smile upon our evening bed!"
William Blake (1757-1827), British poet, painter, mystic. To the Evening Star (l. 1-4). . . The Complete Poems [William Blake]. Alicia Ostriker, ed. (1977) Penguin Books.

 

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"Never seek to tell thy love
Love that never told can be;"
William Blake (1757-1827), British poet, painter, mystic. Never Seek to Tell Thy Love (l. 1-2). . . The Complete Poems [William Blake]. Alicia Ostriker, ed. (1977) Penguin Books.

 

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"Let thy West Wind sleep on
The lake; speak silence with thy glimmering eyes,
And wash the dusk with silver."
William Blake (1757-1827), British poet, painter, mystic. To the Evening Star (l. 8-10). . . The Complete Poems [William Blake]. Alicia Ostriker, ed. (1977) Penguin Books.

 

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"I told my love, I told my love,
I told her all my heart,
Trembling, cold, in ghastly fears—
Ah, she doth depart."
William Blake (1757-1827), British poet, painter, mystic. Never Seek to Tell Thy Love (l. 5-8). . . The Complete Poems [William Blake]. Alicia Ostriker, ed. (1977) Penguin Books.

 

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"How have you left the ancient love
That bards of old enjoyed in you!
The languid strings do scarcely move!
The sound is forced, the notes are few!"
William Blake (1757-1827), British poet, painter, mystic. To the Muses (l. 13-16). . . The Complete Poems [William Blake]. Alicia Ostriker, ed. (1977) Penguin Books.

 

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"Farewell green fields and happy groves,
Where flocks have took delight."
William Blake (1757-1827), British poet, painter, mystic. From SONGS OF INNOCENCE. Night (l. 9-10). . . The Complete Poems [William Blake]. Alicia Ostriker, ed. (1977) Penguin Books.

 

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"Whate'er is Born of Mortal Birth
Must be consumed with the Earth"
William Blake (1757-1827), British poet, painter, mystic. To Tirzah (l. 1-2). . . The Complete Poems [William Blake]. Alicia Ostriker, ed. (1977) Penguin Books.

 

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"The sun descending in the west,
The evening star does shine;
The birds are silent in their nest,
And I must seek for mine."
William Blake (1757-1827), British poet, painter, mystic. From SONGS OF INNOCENCE. Night (l. 1-4). . . The Complete Poems [William Blake]. Alicia Ostriker, ed. (1977) Penguin Books.

 

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"Your friendship http://www.poemhunter.com/william-blake/quotations/page-8/#oft has made my heart to ache:
Do be my enemy for friendship's sake."
William Blake (1757-1827), British poet, painter, mystic. To William Hayley (l. 1-2). . . Treasury of Great Poems, English and American, A. Louis Untermeyer, ed. (Rev. and enl. Ed., 1955) Simon and Schuster.

 

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"All futurity
Seems teeming with endless destruction never to be repelled;
Desperate remorse swallows the present in a quenchless rage."
William Blake (1757-1827), British poet, painter, engraver. Complete Writings, ed. Geoffrey Keynes (1957). "Night the Eighth," The Four Zoas (1795-1804).

 

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"Art can never exist without naked beauty displayed."
William Blake (1757-1827), British poet, painter, engraver. repr. In Complete Writings, ed. Geoffrey Keynes (1957). Notes on The Laocoön (engraved c. 1820).

 

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"When the voices of children are heard on the green
And laughing is heard on the hill,
My heart is at rest within my breast
And everything else is still."

 

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"Can I see a falling tear,
And not feel my sorrow's share?"

 

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"Think not thou canst sigh a sigh
And thy maker is not by;
Think not thou canst weep a tear
And thy maker is not near."
William Blake (1757-1827), British poet, painter, mystic. From SONGS OF INNOCENCE. On Another's Sorrow (l. 29-32). . . The Complete Poems [William Blake]. Alicia Ostriker, ed. (1977) Penguin Books.

 

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"The moment of desire! the moment of desire! The virgin
That pines for man shall awaken her womb to enormous joys
In the secret shadows of her chamber: the youth shut up from
The lustful joy shall forget to generate & create an amorous image
In the shadows of his crutainshttp://www.poemhunter.com/william-blake/quotations/page-9/# and in the folds of his silent pillow.
Are not these the places of religion, the rewards of continence,
The self-enjoyings of self-denial? why dost thou seek religion?
Is it because acts are not lovely that thou seekest solitude
Where the horrible darkness is impressed with reflections of desire?"
William Blake (1757-1827), British poet, painter, engraver. repr. In Complete Writings, ed. Geoffrey Keynes (1957). Oothoon, in Visions of the Daughters of Albion, plate 7 (1793).

 

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"O God, protect me from my friends, that they have not power over me.
Thou hast giv'n me power to protect myself from thy bitterest enemies."
William Blake (1757-1827), British poet, painter, engraver. Palamabron, in Milton, bk. 1 (c. 1810), repr. In Complete Writings, ed. Geoffrey Keynes (1957). The saying has earlier proverbial antecedents in several languages: Queen Elizabeth I, quoted in J.E. Neale, Elizabeth I and Her Parliament ch. 4 (1957), said: "There is an Italian proverb which saith, 'From my enemy let me defend myself; but from a pretensed friend, good Lord deliver me.'..."

 

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"He whose face gives no light, shall never become a star."
William Blake (1757-1827), British poet, painter, engraver. "Proverbs of Hell," plate 7, The Marriage of Heaven and Hell (1790-1793).