Quotes

[Pari]

"Think in the morning. Act in the noon. Eat in the evening. Sleep in the night."
William Blake (1757-1827), British poet, painter, engraver. "Proverbs of Hell," plate 9, The Marriage of Heaven and Hell (1790).

 

[Pari]

"The hours of folly are measured by the clock, but of wisdom no clock can measure."
William Blake (1757-1827), British poet, painter, engraver. "Proverbs of Hell," plate 7, The Marriage of Heaven and Hell (1790).

 

[Pari]

"I am really sorry to see my countrymen trouble themselves about politics. If men were wise, the most arbitrary princes could not hurt them. If they are not wise, the freest government is compelled to be a tyranny. Princes appear to me to be fools. Houses of Commons & Houses of Lords appear to me to be fools; they seem to me to be something else besides human life."
William Blake (1757-1827), British poet, painter, engraver. repr. In Complete Writings, ed. Geoffrey Keynes (1957). Public Address (c. 1810).

 

[Pari]

"When I tell any truth it is not for the sake of convincing those who do not know it, but for the sake of defending those who do."
William Blake (1757-1827), British poet, painter, engraver. Published in Complete Writings, ed. Geoffrey Keynes (1957). "Public Address," (written c. 1810).

 

[Pari]

"When Sir Joshua Reynolds died
All Nature was degraded;"

 

[Pari]

"I walked abroad in a snowy day;
I asked the soft snow with me to play;
She played and she melted in all her prime,
And the winter called it a dreadful crime."

 

[Pari]

"Bring me an axe and spade,
Bring me a winding-sheet;
When I my grave have made
Let winds and tempests beat:
Then down I'll lie as cold as clay.
True love doth pass away!"
William Blake (1757-1827), British poet, painter, mystic. Song (l. 13-18). . . The Complete Poems [William Blake]. Alicia Ostriker, ed. (1977) Penguin Books.

 

[Pari]

"To the eyes of a miser a guinea is more beautiful than the sun, and a bag worn with the use of money has more beautiful proportions than a vine filled with grapes."
William Blake (1757-1827), British poet, painter, engraver. letter, Aug. 23, 1799. Complete Writings, ed. Geoffrey Keynes (1957).

 

[Pari]

"My silks and fine array,
My smiles and languish'd air,
By Love are driv'n away;
And mournful lean Despair
Brings me yew to deck my grave:
Such end true lovers have."
William Blake (1757-1827), British poet, painter, mystic. Song (l. 1-6). . . The Complete Poems [William Blake]. Alicia Ostriker, ed. (1977) Penguin Books.

 

[Pari]

"Sweet babe, in thy face
Soft desires I can trace,
Secret joys and secret smiles,
Little pretty infant wiles."
William Blake (1757-1827), British poet, painter, mystic. A Cradle Song (l. 5-8). . . The Complete Poems [William Blake]. Alicia Ostriker, ed. (1977) Penguin Books.

 

[Pari]

"Cruelty has a Human Heart,
And jealousy a Human Face;
Terror the Human Form Divine,
And secrecy the Human Dress."
William Blake (1757-1827), British poet, painter, engraver. Songs of Experience, "A Divine Image," (1794), repr. In Complete Writings, ed. Geoffrey Keynes (1957). This poem, etched on a copper plate in his usual manner, does not appear in any copy of the Songs of Experience, and so was probably rejected by him.

 

[Pari]

"O the cunning wiles that creep
In thy little heart asleep!
When thy little heart doth wake,
Then the dreadful night shall break."
William Blake (1757-1827), British poet, painter, mystic. A Cradle Song (l. 13-16). . . The Complete Poems [William Blake]. Alicia Ostriker, ed. (1977) Penguin Books.

 

[Pari]

"In every cry of every man,
In every infant's cry of fear,
In every voice, in every ban,
The mind-forg'd manacles I hear."
William Blake (1757-1827), British poet, painter, engraver. Songs of Experience, "London," (1794), repr. In Complete Writings, ed. Geoffrey Keynes (1957).

 

[Pari]

"Acts themselves alone are history.... Tell me the acts, O historian, and leave me to reason upon them as I please; away with your reasoning and your rubbish! All that is not action is not worth reading."
William Blake (1757-1827), British poet, painter, engraver. repr. In Complete Writings, ed. Geoffrey Keynes (1957). A Descriptive Catalogue, no. 5 (1809).

 

[Azeyy]

very nice

 

[Azeyy]

When You fall in Love with someone,
Don’t think just start enjoying it.

 

[Sanandreas]

$$$..... If Some One Is Strong Enough To Bring You Down, Show Them Your Strong Enough To Get UP! .....$$$

 

[Pari]

Every king was once a crying baby
&
Every great building once a map,
It’s not important Where U R Today
but
where u will Reach Tomorrow Is
Important.

 

[sajjad9012]

 

[Raat ki Rani]

People who can sense the sorrow behind your smile, the love behind your anger, and the meaning behind your silence are your true friends in life.​