846 Quotes by William Blake

Can I see another’s woe, and not be in sorrow too? Can I see another’s grief, and not seek for kind relief?

On no other ground Can I sow my seed Without tearing up Some stinking weed.

Eternity is in love with the productions of time. The busy bee has no time for sorrow. The hours of folly are measur’d by the clock, but of wisdom: no clock can measure.

Why cannot the ear be closed to its own destruction? Or the glistening eye to the poison of a smile?

Thou fair-hair’d angel of the evening, Now, whilst the sun rests on the mountains, light Thy bright torch of love; thy radiant crown Put on, and smile upon our evening bed!

He who shall teach the child to doubtThe rotting grave shall ne’er get out.

I heard an Angel singing; When the day was springing, Mercy, Pity, Peace; Is the world’s release.

If you trap the moment before it’s ripe, The tears of repentence you’ll certainly wipe; But if once you let the ripe moment go You can never wipe off the tears of woe.

I’m sure this Jesus will not do Either for Englishman or Jew.