William Blake Light Quotations

He who does not imagine in stronger and better lineaments, and in stronger and better light than his perishing and mortal eye can see, does not imagine at all.

The atoms of Democritus And Newton's particles of light Are sands upon the Red Sea shore, Where Israel's tents do shine so bright.

Let men do their duty and the women will be such wonders; the female lives from the light of the male: see a male's female dependants, you know the man.

[L]et light Rise from the chambers of the east, and bring The honey’d dew that cometh on waking day. O radiant morning...

Thou fair-hair'd angel of the evening, Now, whilst the sun rests on the mountains, light Thy bright torch of love; thy radiant crown Put on, and smile upon our evening bed!

How do you know but ev’ry Bird that cuts the airy way, Is an immense world of delight, clos’d by your senses five?

He who replies to words of doubt doth put the light of knowledge out.

Energy is the only life, and is from the body; and reason is the bound or outward circumference of energy. Energy is eternal delight.

Degrade first the Arts if you'd Mankind Degrade. Hire Idiots to Paint with cold light & hot shade: Give high Price for the worst, leave the best in disgrace, And with Labours of Ignorance fill every place.

Colouring does not depend on where the colours are put, but on where the lights and darks are put, and all depends on form and outline, on where that is put.

Energy is an eternal delight.

Like a fiend in a cloud, With howling woe After night I do crowd And with night will go; I turn my back to the east, From whence comforts have increased; For light cloth seize my brain With frantic pain.

To Mercy, Pity, Peace and Love All pray in their distress, And to these virtues of delight Return their thankfulness.

Life delights in life.

He whose face gives no light, shall never become a star.

God appears, and God is Light, to those poor souls who dwell in Night; but does a Human Form display to those who dwell in realms of Day.

Some are born to sweet delight, Some are born to endless night.

For everything that lives is holy, life delights in life.

Enlightenment means taking full responsibility for your life.