William Blake Quotes About Eternity

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  • The world of imagination is the world of eternity.

    William Blake (1977). “The Portable William Blake”, p.446, Penguin
  • The roaring of lions, the howling of wolves, the raging of the stormy sea, and the destructive sword, are portions of eternity, too great for the eye of man.

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    William Blake (1975). “The Marriage of Heaven and Hell”, p.18, Oxford Paperbacks
  • I rest not from my great task! | To open the Eternal Worlds, | to open the immortal Eyes of Man | Inwards into the Worlds of Thought; | Into eternity, ever expanding | In the Bosom of God, | The Human Imagination

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    William Blake (2008). “The Complete Poetry and Prose of William Blake”, p.147, Univ of California Press
  • He who kisses joy as it flies by will live in eternity's sunrise.

  • He who binds to himself a joy Does the winged life destroy; But he who kisses the joy as it flies Lives in eternity's sun rise.

    William Blake (2000). “The Selected Poems of William Blake”, p.6, Wordsworth Editions
  • The naked women's body is a portion of eternity too great for the eye of man.

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  • To see a world in a grain of sand and a heaven in a wildflower.

    "Auguries of Innocence" l. 1 (ca. 1803)
  • I am more famed in Heaven for my works than I could well conceive. In my brain are studies & chambers filled with books & pictures of old, which I wrote and painted in ages of Eternity before my mortal life; and whose works are the delight & study of Archangels. Why, then, should I be anxious about the riches or fame of mortality?

  • Lives in eternity's sun rise.

    'MS Note-Book' p. 99 'Several Questions Answered' - "He who binds to himself a joy"
  • Time is the mercy of Eternity; without Time's swiftness Which is the swiftest of all things, all were eternal torment.

    William Blake (2008). “The Complete Poetry and Prose of William Blake”, p.121, Univ of California Press
  • If you, who are organised by Divine Providence for spiritual communion, refuse, and bury your talent in the earth, even though you should want natural bread, sorrow and desperation pursue you through life, and after death shame and confusion of face to eternity.

    William Blake (1926). “Prefatory note There is no natural religion. All religions are one. The marriage of heaven and hell Visions of the daughters of Albion. A song of liberty. America. Europe. The book of Urizen. The book of Los. Ahania. The song of Los. The four Zoas. Milton. Jerusalem. On Homer's poetry; On Virgil. Laocoön. The ghost of Abel”
  • The ruins of time build mansions in eternity.

    William Blake (2008). “The Complete Poetry and Prose of William Blake”, p.705, Univ of California Press
  • Time is the Mercy of Eternity

    William Blake (1977). “The Portable William Blake”, p.295, Penguin
  • To see a world in a grain of sand And a heaven in a wild flower, Hold infinity in the palm of your hand, And eternity in an hour.

    'Auguries of Innocence' (c.1803) l. 1
  • The world of imagination is the world of eternity. It is the divine bosom into which we shall all go after death of the vegetative body.

    William Blake (2008). “The Complete Poetry and Prose of William Blake”, p.555, Univ of California Press
  • Hold infinity in the palm of your hand.

    'Auguries of Innocence' (c.1803) l. 1
  • Eternity is in love with the productions of time.

    'The Marriage of Heaven and Hell' (1790-3) 'Proverbs of Hell'
  • For all eternity, I forgive you and you forgive me.

  • 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.

  • Every tear from every eyeBecomes a babe in eternity.

    William Blake, David V. Erdman, Harold Bloom (1982). “The Complete Poetry and Prose of William Blake”, p.495, Univ of California Press
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