Quotes by William Blake with sorrow

William Blake

William Blake

English poet

Lived from: 1757 - 1827

Category: Artists | Poets (Contemporary) Country: FlagUnited Kingdom

Born: 28 november 1757 Died: 12 august 1827

  • As a man is, so he sees. As the eye is formed, such are its powers.
  • It is not because angels are holier than men or devils that makes them angels, but because they do not expect holiness from one another, but from God only.
  • Thinking as I do that the Creator of this world is a very cruel being, and being a worshipper of Christ, I cannot help saying: ''the Son, O how unlike the Father!'' First God Almighty comes with a thump on the head. Then Jesus Christ comes with a balm to heal it.
  • Fun I love, but too much fun is of all things the most loathsome. Mirth is better than fun, and happiness is better than mirth.
  • Both read the Bible day and night, but thou read black where I read white.
  • The inquiry in England is not whether a man has talents and genius, but whether he is passive and polite and a virtuous ass and obedient to noblemen's opinions in art and science. If he is, he is a good man. If not, he must be starved.
  • My mother groaned, my father wept, into the dangerous world I leapt; helpless, naked, piping loud, like a fiend hid in a cloud.
  • Truth can never be told so as to be understood, and not be believed.
  • To see the world in a grain of sand, and to see heaven in a wild flower, hold infinity in the palm of your hands, and eternity in an hour.
  • Tiger, tiger burning bright, In the forests of the night, What immortal hand or eye, Could frame thy fearful symmetry.
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  • The busy bee has no time for sorrow.
    Proverbs of hell
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  • Can I see another's woe, and not be in sorrow too? Can I see another's grief, and not seek for kind relief?
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  • Excessive sorrow laughs. Excessive joy weeps.
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  • Nature in darkness groans and men are bound to sullen contemplation in the night: restless they turn on beds of sorrow; in their inmost brain feeling the crushing wheels, they rise, they write the bitter words of stern philosophy and knead the bread of knowledge with tears and groans.
    ― William Blake
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