Quotes from work
The Divine Image


William Blake photo

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

The Divine Image, st. 3
1780s, Songs of Innocence (1789–1790)

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