William Blake Quotes About Heaven

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  • Heaven is in a grain of sand.

  • God and His Priest and King,...make up a heaven of our misery.

    William Blake, W. H. Stevenson (2007). “Blake: The Complete Poems”, p.170, Pearson Education
  • In your own bosom you bear your heaven and earth, And all you behold, though it appears without, It is within, in your imagination, Of which this world of mortality is but a shadow.

    Shadow  
    William Blake, David Fuller (2008). “William Blake: Selected Poetry and Prose”, Longman Publishing Group
  • As the caterpillar chooses the fairest leaves to lay her eggs on, so the priest lays his curse on the fairest joys.

    William Blake (2005). “Collected Poems”, p.167, Routledge
  • A robin redbreast in a cage Puts all heaven in a rage.

    "Auguries of Innocence" l. 5 (ca. 1803)
  • Love seeketh only self to please, To bind another to its delight, Joys in another's loss of ease, And builds a Hell in Heaven's despite.

    'Songs of Experience' (1794) 'The Clod and the Pebble'
  • Men are admitted into heaven not because they have curbed or governed their passions, but because they have cultivate their understandings.

    William Blake, David Fuller (2000). “William Blake: Selected Poetry and Prose”, p.208, Pearson Education
  • Grown old in love from seven till seven times seven,I oft have wished for Hell for ease from Heaven.

    William Blake, Michael Mason (1998). “Selected Poetry”, p.265, Oxford University Press, USA
  • The Vision of Christ that thou dost see, Is my vision's greatest enemy. Thine is the Friend of all Mankind, Mine speaks in Parables to the blind. Thine loves the same world that mine hates, Thy heaven-doors are my hell gates.

    William Blake (1977). “The Portable William Blake”, p.14, Penguin
  • To see a world in a grain of sand and a heaven in a wildflower.

    "Auguries of Innocence" l. 1 (ca. 1803)
  • Gratitude is heaven itself.

    Gerda S. Norvig, William Blake (1993). “Dark Figures in the Desired Country: Blake's Illustrations to The Pilgrim's Progress”, p.88, Univ of California Press
  • 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?

  • The grave is Heaven's golden gate, And rich and poor around it wait; O Shepherdess of England's fold, Behold this gate of pearl and gold!

    William Blake, William Butler Yeats (2002). “Collected Poems”, p.134, Psychology Press
  • Gratitude is heaven itself; there could be no heaven without gratitude.

    William Blake (1966). “Complete Writings: With Variant Readings”, p.834, Oxford University Press, USA
  • The moon, like a flower in heaven's high bower, with silent delight sits and smiles on the night.

    William Blake (2005). “Collected Poems”, p.55, Routledge
  • A dog starv'd at the master's gate Predicts the ruin of the State. A horse misus'd upon the road Calls to heaven for human blood. Each outcry of the hunted hare A fibre from the brain does tear, A skylark wounded on the wing, A cherubim does cease to sing.

    'Auguries of Innocence' (c.1803) l. 9
  • Love seeketh not itself to please, nor for itself hath any care, but for another gives its ease, and builds a Heaven in Hell's despair.

    'Songs of Experience' (1794) 'The Clod and the Pebble'
  • I give you the end of a golden string, Only wind it into a ball, It will lead you in at Heaven's gate Built in Jerusalem's wall.

    "I give you the end of a golden string" (1815)
  • When the stars threw down their spears, and watered heaven with their tears, did he smile his work to see? Did he who made the Lamb make thee?

    Songs of Experience "The Tiger" (1794)
  • 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
  • This life's dim windows of the soul Distorts the heavens from pole to pole And leads you to believe a lie When you see with, not through, the eye.

    'The Everlasting Gospel' (c.1818) (d) l. 99
  • I am under the direction of messengers from Heaven daily and nightly.

    William Blake (1988). “William Blake”, Oxford University Press, USA
  • Men are admitted into heaven not because they have curbed and governed their passions or have no passions, but because they have cultivated their understandings. The treasures of heaven are not negations of passion, but realities of intellect, from which all the passions emanate uncurbed in their eternal glory.

    William Blake (1977). “The Portable William Blake”, p.454, Penguin
  • The Fool shall not enter into Heaven let him be ever so Holy.

    William Blake, William Butler Yeats (2002). “Collected Poems”, p.233, Psychology Press
  • Those who enter the gates of heaven are not beings who have no passions or who have curbed the passions, but those who have cultivated an understanding of them.

  • The Man who never in his Mind & Thoughts travel'd to Heaven Is No Artist.

    "The Prophetic Writings of William Blake: With a General Introduction Glossarial Index of Symbols Commentary and Appendices".
  • Gratitude, in itself, is heaven.

  • The pure soul shall mount on native wings, . . . and cut a path into the heaven of glory.

    William Blake (2005). “Collected Poems”, p.34, Routledge
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