William Blake Quotes

When the stars threw down their spears, And water'd heaven with their tears, Did he smile his work to see? Did he who made the Lamb make thee?

To Mercy, Pity, Peace, and Love All pray in their distress; And to these virtues of delight Return their thankfulness. For Mercy, Pity, Peace, and Love Is God, our father dear, And Mercy, Pity, Peace, and Love Is Man, his child and care. For Mercy has a human heart, Pity a human face, And Love, the human form divine, And Peace, the human dress.

Tyger! Tyger! burning bright
In the forests of the night,
What immortal hand or eye
Could frame thy fearful symmetry?

Improvement makes straight roads; but the crooked roads without improvement are roads of genius.

If the Sun and Moon should ever doubt, they'd immediately go out.

Pluck thou my flower, Oothoon the mild; Another flower shall spring, because the soul of sweet delight Can never pass away.

A dead body revenges not injuries.

He who sees the Infinite in all things sees God. He who sees the Ratio only sees himself only. Therefore God becomes as we are, that we may be as he is.

The cut worm forgives the plow.

In the universe, there are things that are known, and things that are unknown, and in between them, there are doors.

Every Thing has its Vermin O Spectre of the Sleeping Dead!

And Priests in black gowns, were walking their rounds,
And binding with briars, my joys & desires.

He who shall hurt the little wren
Shall never be beloved by men.

Fiery the Angels rose, & as they rose deep thunder roll’d Around their shores, indignant burning with the fires of Orc.

Shame is Prides cloke.