William Blake > Quotes Collection
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“It matters not how straight the gate, how charged with punishments the scroll. I am the master of my fate: I am the captain of my soul.”
“A good local pub has much in common with a church, except that a pub is warmer, and there's more conversation. ”
“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.”
Does the winged life destroy;
But he who kisses the joy as it flies
Lives in eternity's sun rise.”
“This life's dim windows of the soul
Distorts the heavens from pole to pole
And leads you to believe a lie
When you see with, not through, the eye.”
Distorts the heavens from pole to pole
And leads you to believe a lie
When you see with, not through, the eye.”
“Never seek to tell thy love; Love that never told can be. For the gentle wind does move silently.. invisibly.”
“A Robin Redbreast in a Cage
Puts all Heaven in a Rage.
A dove house fill’d with doves and pigeons
Shudders Hell thro’ all its regions.
A Dog starv’d at his Master’s Gate
Predicts the ruin of the State.
A Horse misus’d upon the Road
Calls to Heaven for Human blood.
Each outcry of the hunted Hare
A fiber from the Brain does tear.”
Puts all Heaven in a Rage.
A dove house fill’d with doves and pigeons
Shudders Hell thro’ all its regions.
A Dog starv’d at his Master’s Gate
Predicts the ruin of the State.
A Horse misus’d upon the Road
Calls to Heaven for Human blood.
Each outcry of the hunted Hare
A fiber from the Brain does tear.”
“Can I see another's woe and not be in sorrow, too? Can I see another's grief and not seek for kind relief?”
“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.”
And a Heaven in a wild flower,
Hold Infinity in the palm of your hand,
And Eternity in an hour.”
“Those who control their passions do so because their passions are weak enough to be controlled.”
Imagination is the real and eternal world of which this vegetable universe is but a faint shadow.”