William Blake: Doing

William Blake was English Romantic poet and artist. Explore interesting quotes on doing.
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“Those who restrain desire do so because theirs is weak enough to be restrained; and the restrainer or reason usurps its place & governs the unwilling.”

William Blake book The Marriage of Heaven and Hell

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

“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”

William Blake

Public Address, Blake's Notebook c. 1810
1810s

Truth

“I do not behold the outward creation”

William Blake

A Vision of the Last Judgment
Context: I assert, for myself, that I do not behold the outward creation, and that to me it is hindrance and not action. "What!" it will be questioned, "when the sun rises, do you not see a round disc of fire somewhat like a guinea!" Oh! no, no! I see an innumerable company of the heavenly host crying "Holy, holy, holy is the Lord God Almighty!" I question not my corporeal eye any more than I would question a window concerning a sight. I look through it, and not with it.

“I myself do nothing. The Holy Spirit accomplishes all through me.”

William Blake

Attributed to William Blake by Michael J. Gelb in Creativity on Demand: How to Ignite and Sustain the Fire of Genius https://books.google.nl/books?id=lCsNBQAAQBAJ&printsec=frontcover&dq=%22Creativity+on+Demand:+How+to+Ignite+and+Sustain+the+Fire+of+Genius%22&hl=nl&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjolMyvm6TLAhVDLQ8KHechDoIQ6AEIHzAA#v=onepage&q=%22I%20myself%20do%20nothing.%20The%20Holy%20Spirit%20accomplishes%20all%20through%20me%22&f=false (2014), but cannot be retrieved in The Marriage of Heaven and Hell, xxii.
Attributed

“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?”

William Blake
World , Way , Bird , Sense

“He who would do good to another must do it in minute particulars;
General good is the plea of the scoundrel, hypocrite, and flatterer:
For art and science cannot exist but in minutely organized Particulars.”

William Blake

Source: 1800s, Jerusalem The Emanation of The Giant Albion (c. 1803–1820), Ch. 3, plate 55, line 60

Art , Science

“What is it men in women do require?
The lineaments of gratified desire.
What is it women do in men require?
The lineaments of gratified desire.”

William Blake

No. 4, What Is It
1790s, Poems from Blake's Notebook (c. 1791-1792), Several Questions Answered

Women , Men

“He who doubts from what he sees
Will ne'er believe, do what you please.
If the sun and moon should doubt
They'd immediately go out.”

William Blake

Source: 1800s, Auguries of Innocence (1803), Line 107

Sun

“Thinking as I do that the Creator of this World is a very Cruel Being & being a Worshipper of Christ, I cannot help saying: "the Son, O how unlike the Father!" First God Almighty comes with a Thump on the Head. Then Jesus Christ comes with a balm to heal it.”

William Blake

A Vision of the Last Judgment
1810s

God , World , Thinking , Help

“How have you left the ancient love
That bards of old enjoyed in you!
The languid strings do scarcely move!
The sound is forced, the notes are few!”

William Blake To the Muses

To the Muses, st. 4
1780s, Poetical Sketches (1783)

Love

“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

“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)

“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.”

William Blake

Mad Song, st. 3
1780s, Poetical Sketches (1783)

Pain , Light , Night

“Seeing this False Christ, in fury and passion
I made my voice heard all over the nation.
…
I am sure this Jesus will not do
Either for Englishman or Jew.”

William Blake

1810s, The Everlasting Gospel (c. 1818)

Passion , Christ , Falseness

“Thinking as I do that the Creator of this World is a very Cruel Being & being a Worshipper of Christ, I cannot help saying: "the Son, O how unlike the Father!"”

William Blake

First God Almighty comes with a Thump on the Head. Then Jesus Christ comes with a balm to heal it.

A Vision of the Last Judgment
1810s

World , Thinking , Christ , Help