
A Sense of Wonder
Song lyrics, A Sense of Wonder (1985)
Brekkukotsannáll (The Fish Can Sing) (1957)
A Sense of Wonder
Song lyrics, A Sense of Wonder (1985)
“What I saw was the hoax: Immortals questioning mortality when they should have asked eternity.”
"She's Dead?"
Shades of the World (1985)
Source: Song lyrics, The Kick Inside (1978)
On his inspiration, when he was still learning English and walking alone in the fields of Long Island, to take up the reading of No Cross, No Crown by William Penn, after having first set it aside upon realizing it was a religious book. In Memoirs of the Life and Gospel Labors of Stephen Grellet (1860), p. 20
Context: I was suddenly arrested by what seemed to be an awful voice proclaiming the words, "Eternity! Eternity! Eternity!" It reached my very soul — my whole man shook — it brought me like Saul to the ground. The great depravity and sinfulness of my heart were set before me, and the gulf of everlasting destruction to which I was verging. I was made to bitterly cry out, "If there is no God — doubtless there is a hell." I found myself in the midst of it.
The Letters Of William Blake https://archive.org/details/lettersofwilliam002199mbp (1956), p. 50
1790s
“And before you know me gone
Eternity and I are one.”
Time
"I Knew a Woman," ll. 22-28
Words for the Wind (1958)
Context: Let seed be grass, and grass turn into hay:
I'm martyr to a motion not my own;
What's freedom for? To know eternity.
I swear she cast a shadow white as stone.
But who would count eternity in days?
These old bones live to learn her wanton ways:
(I measure time by how a body sways.)
Source: My Name is Red
“What sweet, what happy days had I,
When dreams made Time Eternity!”
The Time of Dreams.