William Blake Quotes on World (11 Quotes)


    Thinking as I do that the Creator of this world is a very cruel being, and 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.

    I feel that a Man may be happy in This World. And I know that This World Is a World of Imagination Vision.

    Since all the riches of this world May be gifts from the Devil and earthly kings, I should suspect that I worshipp'd the Devil If I thank'd my God for worldly things

    To me this world is all one continued vision of fancy or imagination, and I feel flattered when I am told so. What is it sets Homer, Virgil and Milton in so high a rank of art Why is the Bible more entertaining and instructive than any other book Is it not because they are addressed to the imagination, which is spiritual sensation, and but immediately to the understanding or reason

    The ancient tradition that the world will be consumed in fire at the end of six thousand years is true, as I have heard from Hell.


    see the world in a grain of sand ... And eternity in an hour.

    The world of imagination is the world of eternity. It is the divine bosom into which we shall all go after the death of the vegetated i.e. mortal body. This world of imagination is infinite and eternal, whereas the world of generation is finite and temporal. There exist in that eternal world the eternal realities of everything which we see reflected in this vegetable glass of nature.

    Man was made for joy and woe. And when this we rightly know Through the world we safely go.

    Let every Christian, as much as in him lies, engage himself openly and publicly, before all the World, in some mental pursuit for the Building up of Jerusalem.

    The human mind cannot go beyond the gift of God, the Holy Ghost. To suppose that art can go beyond the finest specimens of art that are now in the world is not knowing what art is it is being blind to the gifts of the spirit.

    To see the world in a grain of sand, and to see heaven in a wild flower, hold infinity in the palm of your hands, and eternity in an hour.


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