William Blake: Frasi in inglese (pagina 2)

“And throughout all eternity
I forgive you, you forgive me.”

“Improvement makes straight roads; but the crooked roads without improvement are roads of genius.”

“Great things are done when men and mountains meet;
This is not done by jostling in the street.”

“Think in the morning. Act in the noon. Eat in the evening. Sleep in the night.”

“I was angry with my friend:
I told my wrath, my wrath did end.
I was angry with my foe:
I told it not, my wrath did grow.”

“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”

“The tygers of wrath are wiser than the horses of instruction.”

“How can a bird that is born for joy
Sit in a cage and sing?”

“Knowledge is Life with wings”

“Children of the future Age
Reading this indignant page,
Know that in a former time
Love! sweet Love! was thought a crime.”

“The crow wished everything was black, the Owl, that everything was white.”

“The hours of folly are measur'd by the clock, but of wisdom no clock can measure.”

“My mother bore me in the southern wild,
And I am black, but O! my soul is white;
White as an angel is the English child,
But I am black as if bereaved of light.”

“When my mother died I was very young,
And my father sold me while yet my tongue
Could scarcely cry 'weep! 'weep! 'weep!'weep!
So your chimneys I sweep, and in soot I sleep.”

“I see the Four-fold Man.
The Humanity in deadly sleep,
And its fallen Emanation. The Spectre & its cruel Shadow.
I see the Past, Present & Future, existing all at once
Before me; O Divine Spirit sustain me on thy wings!”

“For Mercy has a human heart,
Pity, a human face,
And Love, the human form divine,
And Peace, the human dress.”

“It is easier to forgive an Enemy than to forgive a Friend.”

“If a thing loves, it is infinite.”

“If the doors of perception were cleansed every thing would appear to man as it is, Infinite. For man has closed himself up, till he sees all things thro' narrow chinks of his cavern.”