Blake Poetry Quotes

#1. The reason Milton wrote in fetters when he wrote of Angels & God, and at liberty when of Devils & Hell, is because he was a true Poet and of the Devil's party without knowing it.

William Blake

#2. One becomes all encompassing (sarvasva, the work is completed), when one can see the world as completely faultless (nirdosh).

Dada Bhagwan

#3. Poetry, Painting & Music, the three Powers in man of conversing with Paradise, which the flood did not sweep away.

William Blake

#4. The emmet's inch and eagle's mile
Make lame philosophy to smile.
He who doubts from what he sees
Will ne'er believe, do what you please.

- "Auguries of Innocence

William Blake

#5. To be able to do one thing at a time is the whole art of life.

Sangharakshita

#6. I've written poetry since I was a kid. As the years went on, I got into writing stories and screenplays, but I always, always kept up with poetry as well.

Blake Jenner

#7. I'm an old man, and she's gone now. So don't worry, okay?

Rebecca Stead

#8. It is far better to cannibalize yourself than have someone else do it,

Brad Stone

#9. The glory of Christianity is to conquer by forgiveness.

William Blake

#10. Poetry is the most subtle of the literary arts, and students grow more ingenious by the year at avoiding it. If they can nip around Milton, duck under Blake and collapse gratefully into the arms of Jane Austen, a lot of them will.

Terry Eagleton

#11. Buddha is in our hearts. Buddha is in our mouths. Buddha is in our daily lives.

Gautama Buddha

#12. Truth can never be told so as to be understood and not be believed.

William Blake

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

William Blake

#14. The lamb misused breeds public strife
And yet forgives the butcher's knife.

William Blake

#15. In every cry of every man,
In every infant's cry of fear,
In every voice, in every ban,
The mind-forged manacles I hear.

William Blake

#16. Television turned out to be exactly as bad as the most irritating and pedantic intellectuals of the '50s said it was going to be.

Fran Lebowitz

#17. My love is new music, I tend to go and see a lot of bands, while [co-producer] Mark Cooper spends his time reading the press. It's often the new acts that strike a chord, because they aren't seen on other shows.

Jools Holland

#18. I must create a system, or be enslaved by another man's. I will not reason and compare: my business is to create.

William Blake

#19. Vader approached, drawing and igniting his Sith blade. Shryne blinked blood from his eyes; lifted his lightsaber hand only to realize that he had lost the sword during his fall. Slumping back, he loosed a ragged, resigned exhalation.

James Luceno

#20. Each man is haunted until his humanity awakens.

William Blake

#21. To cast aside from Poetry, all that is not Inspiration

William Blake

#22. All that we saw was owing to your metaphysics.

William Blake

#23. There is a Moment in each Day that Satan cannot find

William Blake

#24. Where the bodily presence is weak and the speech contemptible, surely there cannot be error in making written language the medium of better utterance than faltering lips can achieve?

Charlotte Bronte

#25. But Blake's voices returned to dictate revisions.

Donald Hall

#26. And we are put on earth a little space,
that we may learn to bear the beams of love;
And these black bodies and this sunburnt face
Is but a cloud, and like a shady grove.

William Blake

#27. Will you no come back again?
Better loved you'll never be,
And will you no come back again?

James Hogg

#28. Auguries of innocence
The emmet's inch and eagle's mile
Make lame philosophy to smile.
He who doubts from what he sees
Will ne'er believe, do what you please.

William Blake

#29. The philosophic mind inclines always to an elaborate life
the life of Goethe or of Leonardo da Vinci; but the life of the poet isintense
the life of Blake or of Dante
taking into its centre the life that surrounds it and flinging it abroad again amid planetary music.

James Joyce

#30. You couldn't trust people to be tomorrow what they had been yesterday.

Garth Risk Hallberg

#31. A wasteland of embarrassment and social upheaval can be neatly avoidedby following a single precept in life:
Do not lie

Sam Harris

#32. Your level of consciousness defines the beauty of your life and destiny.

Debasish Mridha

#33. I still believe in this country, that it can fulfill the destiny Blake and Whitman envisioned. I still believe in American poetry.

Philip Levine

#34. The mystical poetry of William Blake's artwork also forms the basis for the album cover.

Bruce Dickinson