Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
The moon, like a flower in heaven's high bower, with silent delight sits and smiles on the night.
William Blake
Share
Change background
T
T
T
Change font
Original
TAGS & TOPICS
William Blake
Age: 69 †
Born: 1757
Born: November 28
Died: 1827
Died: August 12
Collector
Engraver
Graphic Artist
Illustrator
Lithographer
Painter
Philosopher
Poet
Printer
Theologian
London
England
W. Blake
Uil'iam Bleik
Blake
Night
Sits
Like
Smiles
Delight
Silent
Moon
Flower
High
Heaven
Bower
More quotes by William Blake
I was in a Printing-house in Hell, and saw the method in which knowledge is transmitted from generation to generation.
William Blake
O thou who passest through our valleys in Thy strength, curb thy fierce steeds, allay the heat That flames from their large nostrils! Thou, O Summer, Oft pitchest here thy golden tent, and oft Beneath our oaks hast slept, while we beheld With joy thy ruddy limbs and flourishing hair.
William Blake
Active Evil is better than Passive Good.
William Blake
Those who restrain their desires, do so because theirs is weak enough to be restrained.
William Blake
Why stand we here trembling around, calling on God for help, and not ourselves, in whom God dwells?
William Blake
A dead body revenges not injuries.
William Blake
As I was walking among the fires of Hell, delighted with the enjoyments of Genius which to Angels look like torment and insanity, I collected some of their Proverbs.
William Blake
The glory of Christianity is to conquer by forgiveness.
William Blake
Some say that happiness is not good for mortals, & they ought to be answered that sorrow is not fit for immortals & is utterly useless to any one a blight never does good to a tree, & if a blight kill not a tree but it still bear fruit, let none say that the fruit was in consequence of the blight.
William Blake
God forbid that Truth should be confined to Mathematical Demonstration!
William Blake
The worship of God is, Honouring his gifts in other men each according to his genius, and loving the greatest men best those who envy or calumniate great men hate God, for there is no other God.
William Blake
That the Jews assumed a right exclusively to the benefits of God will be a lasting witness against them and the same will it be against Christians.
William Blake
The vision of Christ that thou dost see Is my vision's greatest enemy.
William Blake
The eye altering, alters all.
William Blake
To Mercy, Pity, Peace and Love All pray in their distress, And to these virtues of delight Return their thankfulness.
William Blake
The roaring of lions, the howling of wolves, the raging of the stormy sea, and the destructive sword, are portions of eternity, too great for the eye of man.
William Blake
The Whole Business of Man is The Arts, & All Things Common.
William Blake
I'm sure this Jesus will not do Either for Englishman or Jew.
William Blake
I have conversed with the spiritual Sun. I saw him on Primrose Hill
William Blake
The cut worm forgives the plow.
William Blake