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Love Quotes by William Blake

77 Love quotes by William Blake

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William Blake paints love as a fragile thing that grows strong when we trust despite doubts. He calls for love that embraces every human, no matter the culture or creed, and warns that hidden pain can linger like a sick rose with an invisible worm. His verses mix hope with a warning about neglect.

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If a thing loves, it is infinite.

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Energy is an eternal delight.

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What has reasoning to do with painting?

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Time is the Mercy of Eternity

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Gratitude, in itself, is heaven.

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Gratitude is heaven itself.

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As we are, so we see.

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Mere enthusiasm is the all in all.

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The voice of honest indignation is the voice of God.

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He who sees the Infinite in all things sees God.

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I am going to that country which I have all my life wished to see.

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He who has suffered you to impose on him knows you.

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Every thing possible to be believ'd is an image of truth.

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Without contraries there is no progression.

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We are here to learn to endure the beams of love

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He who would do good to another must do it in minute particulars.

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Love is weak when there is more doubt than there is trust, but love is most strong when you learn to trust…

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“And, father, how can I love you Or any of my brothers more? I love you like the little bird That picks…

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The look of love alarms Because 'tis filled with fire; But the look of soft deceit Shall sin the lover's hire.

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Grown old in love from seven till seven times seven,I oft have wished for Hell for ease from Heaven.

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Without contraries is no progression. Attraction and repulsion, reason and energy, love and hate, are necessary to human existence.

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How have you left the ancient love That bards of old enjoyed in you! The languid strings do scarcely move! The sound…

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What is it men in women do require: The lineaments of gratified desire. What is it women do in men require: The…

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He loves to sit and hear me sing, Then, laughing, sports and plays with me; Then stretches out my golden wing, And…

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Thou fair-hair'd angel of the evening, Now, whilst the sun rests on the mountains, light Thy bright torch of love; thy radiant…

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The Sick Rose O Rose, thou art sick. The invisible worm That flies in the night In the howling storm Has found…

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“O Rose, thou art sick. The invisible worm That flies in the night In the howling storm Has found out thy bed…

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Bring me an axe and spade, Bring me a winding-sheet; When I my grave have made Let winds and tempests beat: Then…

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“Never seek to tell thy love, Love that never told can be; For the gentle wind doth move Silently, invisibly. I told…

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“For Mercy has a human heart; Pity, a human face; And Love, the human form divine: And Peace the human dress. Songs…

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I went to the Garden of Love, And saw what I never had seen: A Chapel was built in the midst, Where…

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“Love seeketh not Itself to please Nor for itself hath any care, But for another gives its ease And builds a Heaven…

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To Mercy Pity Peace and Love All pray in their distress, And to these virtues of delight Return their thankfulness. For Mercy…

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The fox condemns the trap, not himself.

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Exhuberance is Beauty.

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You become what you behold.

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I see through my eyes, not with them.

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Life delights in life.

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I cry, Love! Love! Love! happy happy Love! free as the mountain wind!

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Innocence dwells with Wisdom, but never with ignorance...

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Poetry fettered, fetters the human race. Nations are destroyed or flourish in proportion as their poetry, painting, and music are destroyed or flourish.

Where any view of money exists, art cannot be carried on.

God only acts and is, in existing beings or men.

Kill not the moth nor butterfly, For the Last Judgement draweth nigh.

The world of imagination is the world of eternity. It is the divine bosom into which we shall all go after death of the…

Imagination is the real and eternal world of which this vegetable universe is but a faint shadow.

Painters are noted for being dissipated and wild.

Time is the mercy of Eternity; without Time's swiftness Which is the swiftest of all things, all were eternal torment.

The difference between a bad artist and a good one is: the bad artist seems to copy a great deal; the good one really…

Cruelty has a human heart, and jealousy a human face. Terror, the human form divine, And secrecy, the human dress.

A dead body revenges not injuries.

Those who restrain desire, do so because theirs is weak enough to be restrained; and the restrainer or reason usurps its place & governs…

To generalize is to be an idiot.

THE POISON TREE I was angry with my friend: I told my wrath, my wrath did end. I was angry with my foe; I…

The bird a nest the spider a web the human friendship