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“How sweet I roamed from field to field,
And tasted all the summer's pride,
Till I the prince of love beheld,
Who in the sunny beams did glide!”

William Blake

Song (How Sweet I Roamed), st. 1
1780s, Poetical Sketches (1783)

Love , Summer

“A robin redbreast in a cage
Puts all Heaven in a rage.”

William Blake

Source: 1800s, Auguries of Innocence (1803), Line 5

Rage

“To Generalize is to be an Idiot. To Particularize is the Alone Distinction of Merit — General Knowledges are those Knowledges that Idiots possess.”

William Blake

Annotations to Sir Joshua Reynolds's Discourses, pp. xvii–xcviii (c. 1798–1809)
1790s

Knowledge

“Jesus & his apostles & disciples were all artists”

William Blake

The Laocoön, p. 271
1800s

“The sword sung on the barren heath,
The sickle in the fruitful field;
The sword he sung a song of death,
But could not make the sickle yield.”

William Blake

The Sword Sung
1790s, Poems from Blake's Notebook (c. 1791-1792)

Death

“It is not because Angels are Holier than Men or Devils that makes them Angels but because they do not Expect Holiness from one another but from God only”

William Blake

1810s
Source: A Vision of the Last Judgment

Men , God , Angels

“O Saviour pour upon me thy Spirit of meekness & love:
Annihilate the Selfhood in me, be thou all my life!
Guide thou my hand which trembles exceedingly upon the rock of ages”

William Blake

Source: 1800s, Jerusalem The Emanation of The Giant Albion (c. 1803–1820), Ch. 1, plate 5, lines 21-23 The Words of Blake

Love , Life , Age

“Sleep, sleep, beauty bright,
Dreaming o'er the joys of night.
Sleep, sleep: in thy sleep
Little sorrows sit and weep.”

William Blake A Cradle Song

A Cradle Song, st. 1
1790s, Poems from Blake's Notebook (c. 1791-1792)

Beauty , Dreams , Sleep , Joy

“The modest Rose puts forth a thorn,
The humble sheep a threat’ning horn:
While the Lily white shall in love delight,
Nor a thorn nor a threat stain her beauty bright.”

William Blake

The Lily
1790s, Songs of Experience (1794)

Love , Beauty

“My mother groan'd! my father wept.
Into the dangerous world I leapt:
Helpless, naked, piping loud:
Like a fiend hid in a cloud.”

William Blake

Infant Sorrow, st. 1
1790s, Songs of Experience (1794)

World

“But most, thro' midnight streets I hear
How the youthful Harlot’s curse
Blasts the new born Infant’s tear,
And blights with plagues the Marriage hearse.”

William Blake London

London, st. 4
1790s, Songs of Experience (1794)

Marriage , Youth , Tear

“You cannot have Liberty in this world without what you call Moral Virtue & you cannot have Moral Virtue without the Slavery of that half of the Human Race who hate what you call Moral Virtue”

William Blake

A Vision of the Last Judgment
1810s

Hate , World

“But Want of Money & the Distress of A Thief can never be alleged as the Cause of his Thieving, for many honest people endure greater hard ships with Fortitude. We must therefore seek the Cause else where than in want of Money for that is the Misers passion, not the Thiefs.”

William Blake

1790s, Letter to Revd. Dr. Trusler (1799)

Money , People , Passion

“They have divided themselves by Wrath. they must be united by
Pity<…”

William Blake

Source: Jerusalem The Emanation of The Giant Albion (c. 1803–1820), Ch. 1, plate 7, lines 57-58 The Words of Los to his Spectre

“Every Thing has its Vermin O Spectre of the Sleeping Dead!”

William Blake

Frontiespiece, plate 1, line 11 (as it seen on the additional plate, Fitzwilliam Museum).
1800s, Jerusalem The Emanation of The Giant Albion (c. 1803–1820)

Sleep , Dead

“If you have formed a circle to go into,
Go into it yourself and see how you would do.”

William Blake To God

To God
1800s, Poems from Blake's Notebook (c. 1807-1809)

“The reason Milton wrote in fetters when he wrote of Angels and God, and at liberty when of Devils and Hell, is because he was a true poet and of the Devils' party without knowing it.”

William Blake

Note to The Voice of the Devil
1790s, The Marriage of Heaven and Hell (1790–1793)

God , Angels , Hell

“Degrade first the arts if you'd mankind degrade,
Hire idiots to paint with cold light and hot shade.”

William Blake

Annotations to Sir Joshua Reynolds's Discourses, title page (c. 1798–1809)
1790s

Art , Light , Painting

“Forgiveness of enemies can only come upon their repentance.”

William Blake

1780s, Annotations to Lavater (1788)

Forgiveness

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

William Blake

Ibid, stanza 9
1810s, Miscellaneous poems and fragments from the Nonesuch edition