William Blake: Frasi in inglese (pagina 6)

“When a sinister person means to be your enemy, they always start by trying to become your friend.”

“The weak in courage is strong in cunning.”

“thus men forgot that all deities reside in the human breast.”

“The busy bee has no time for sorrow.”

“Make your own rules or be a slave to another man's.”

“And is he honest who resists his genius or conscience only for the sake of present ease or gratification”

“The apple tree never asks the beech how he shall grow, nor the lion, the horse, how he shall take his prey.”

“The eye altering, alters all.”

“How do you know but ev’ry Bird that cuts the airy way,
Is an immense world of delight, clos’d by your senses five?”

“And I watered it in fears,
Night and morning with my tears;
And I sunned it with smiles,
And with soft deceitful wiles.”

“Thy friendship oft has made my heart to ache: do be my enemy for friendship's sake.”

“The prince's robes and beggar's rags,
Are toadstools on the miser's bags.
A truth that's told with bad intent,
Beats all the lies you can invent”

“I will not cease from mental fight
Nor shall my sword sleep in my hand.”

“The bird a nest, the spider a web, man friendship.”

“excuse my enthusiasm or rather madness, for I am really drunk with intellectual vision whenever I take a pencil or graver into my hand.”

“The naked woman’s body is a portion of eternity too great for the eye of man.”

“When nations grow old, the Arts grow cold,
And Commerce settles on every tree.”

“The thankful receiver bears a plentiful harvest.”

“Fiery the Angels rose, and as they rose deep thunder roll'd
Around their shores: indignant burning with the fires of Orc.”