Quotes from blake william ii

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

In my Brain are studies & chambers fill'd with books & pictures of old, which I wrote & painted in ages of Eternity before my mortal life.

The iron hand crush'd the Tyrant's head And became a Tyrant in his stead.

When I tell any Truth it is not for the sake of Convincing those who do not know it but for the sake of defending those who Do.

Like a fiend in a cloud, With howling woe, After night I do crowd, And with night will go; I turn my back to the east, From whence comforts have increased; For light doth seize my brain With frantic pain.

Wisdom is sold in the desolate market where none come to buy, And in the withered fields where the farmer ploughs for bread in vain.

Father, O father! what do we here In this land of unbelief and fear? The Land of Dreams is better far, Above the light of the morning star.

For every thing exists & not one sigh nor smile nor tear, One hair nor particle of dust, not one can pass away.

He who binds to himself a joy Does the wingèd life destroy; But he who kisses the joy as it flies Lives in eternity's sunrise.

There can be no Good Will. Will is always Evil; it is persecution to others or selfishness.