The caterpillar on the leaf / Repeats to thee thy mother's grief.
William Blake
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DEAN CAVANAGH Yet then from all my grief, O Lord,
Thy mercy set me free,
Whilst in the confidence of pray'r
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MICHAEL MCCLURE He that is thy friend indeed,He will help thee in thy need:If thou sorrow, he will weep;If thou wake...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Ah, make the most of what we yet may spend,
Before we too into the Dust descend;
Dust into...
OMAR KHAYYáM Thy father's merit sets thee up to view,
And shows thee in the fairest point of light,
To make...
JOSEPH ADDISON That William Blake
Who beat upon the wall
Till Truth obeyed his call.
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS The mystical poetry of William Blake's artwork also forms the basis for the album cover.
BRUCE DICKINSON Every day in thy life is a leaf in thy history.
UNKNOWN Allen Ginsberg was a world authority on the writing of William Blake, and had an incredible knowledg...
DAVID AMRAM And he shall besiege thee in all thy gates, until thy high and fenced walls come down, wherein thou ...
BIBLE Control thy passions, lest they take vengeance on thee.
EPICTETUS Control thy passions lest they take vengence on thee.
EPICTETUS Is this some city? You go looking for Vermeer and you find William Blake.
JOHN SCANLON And it shall come to pass, when all these things are come upon thee, the blessing and the curse, whi...
BIBLE Vainly the fowler's eye
Might mark thy distant flight to do thee wrong,
As, darkly painted on ...
WILLIAM CULLEN BRYANT Thy riches, and thy fairs, thy merchandise, thy mariners, and thy pilots, thy calkers, and the occup...
BIBLE Never esteem anything as of advantage to thee that shall make thee break thy word or lose thy self-r...
MARCUS AURELIUS Withdraw thy foot from thy neighbour's house; lest he be weary of
thee, and so hate thee.
BIBLE I sang 'O Holy Night' with the Vatican orchestra, but also a Blake - a lullaby that William ...
PATTI SMITH Because thou hast made the LORD, which is my refuge, even the most High, thy habitation; There shall...
PSALM 91:9-11 The LORD shall command the blessing upon thee in thy storehouses, and in all that thou settest thine...
BIBLE He that is thy friend indeed,
He will help thee in thy need:
If thou sorrow, he will weep; WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE He that is thy friend indeed,
He will help thee in thy need:
If thou sorrow, he will weep;...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE And Joseph answered and said, This is the interpretation thereof: The three baskets are three days: ...
BIBLE I decked thee also with ornaments, and I put bracelets upon thy hands, and a chain on thy neck.
BIBLE Mothers yielding Bibles, contemplating smearing the blood of lamb chops over her doorway. Anything t...
ANTONIA PERDU And unto him that smiteth thee on the one cheek offer also the other; and him that taketh away thy c...
BIBLE That I may apprehend thee as light lightening every creature and everything, every moment; that I ma...
ERIC MILNER-WHITE Columbia, Columbia, to glory arise,
The queen of the world and the child of the skies!
Thy gen...
TIMOTHY DWIGHT Meditation is the process of transformation and beautification of soul from a leaf-eating caterpilla...
AMIT RAY Grief fills the room up of my absent child, lies in his bed, walks up and down with me, puts on his ...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE A lot of poets too live on the margins of social acceptance, they certainly aren't in it for the...
JIM JARMUSCH Moreover if thy brother shall trespass against thee, go and tell him his fault between thee and him ...
BIBLE What thing shall I take to witness for thee? what thing shall I liken to thee, O daughter of Jerusal...
BIBLE And I will set my jealousy against thee, and they shall deal furiously with thee: they shall take aw...
BIBLE Let thy discontents be thy secrets; if the world knows them 'twill despise thee and increase them
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN Thy rowers have brought thee into great waters: the east wind hath broken thee in the midst of the s...
BIBLE And when I passed by thee, and saw thee polluted in thine own blood, I said unto thee when thou wast...
BIBLE Thee too, my Paridel! she mark'd thee there,
Stretch'd on the rack of a too easy chair,
And h...
ALEXANDER POPE If thou art indeed my father, then hast thou stained thy sword in the life-blood of thy son. And tho...
KHALED HOSSEINI Forgive, O Lord, my little jokes on Thee and I'll forgive Thy great big one on me.
ROBERT FROST Forgive, O Lord, my little jokes on Thee, and I'll forgive Thy great big joke on me.
ROBERT FROST Dangerous as a lightning strike, as lethal as a pair of crisscrossing short swords, William whispere...
GENA SHOWALTER And there shall cleave nought of the cursed thing to thine hand: that the LORD may turn from the fie...
BIBLE Therefore if thou bring thy gift to the altar, and there rememberest that thy brother hath ought aga...
BIBLE I'm in the middle of the road, it seems vague of unclear way, of where I'm going but no matter what ...
HLONIM They stand uncertainly underneath immense skies, and everything about them is drowned.
JACK KEROUAC I heard the Denver and Rio Grande locomotives howling off in to the mountains. I wanted to pursue my...
JACK KEROUAC I read my copy of On the Road and dug the scenery whizzing past. On the Road is a semi-autobiographi...
CORY DOCTOROW Teaching a child not to step on a caterpillar is as valuable to the child as it is to the caterpilla...
BRADLEY MILLAR Peace be unto thy soul; thine adversity and thine afflictions shall be but a small moment;
JOSEPH SMITH JR. It were a grief so brief to part with thee.
Farewell.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Accept these grateful tears! for thee thy flow,
For thee, that ever felt another's woe!
HOMER ("SMYRNS OF CHIOS") Thou hast not brought me the small cattle of thy burnt offerings; neither hast thou honoured me with...
BIBLE Forgive, O Lord, my little jokes on Thee
And I'll forgive Thy great big one on me.
ROBERT FROST Drive thy business or it will drive thee.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN Listen or thy tongue will keep thee deaf.
AMERICAN INDIAN PROVERB Drive thy business, let not that drive thee.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN Helpe thy selfe, and God will helpe thee.
GEORGE HERBERT Listen or thy tongue will keep thee deaf
INDIAN PROVERB I will live in thy heart, die in thy lap, and be buried in thy
eyes—and moreover, I will go w...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE I have kept thy precepts and thy testimonies: for all my ways are before thee.
BIBLE Thy raiment waxed not old upon thee, neither did thy foot swell, these forty years.
BIBLE Take the flower from my breast, I pray thee, Take the flower, too, from out my tresses; And then go ...
HELENE VACARESCO When thou attended gloriously from heaven,
Shalt in the sky appear, and from thee send
Thy sum...
JOHN MILTON But zeal moved thee;
To please thy gods thou didst it!
JOHN MILTON May it preserve thee from sorcery, from thy equals and thy kin! Undying be, immortal, exceedingly vi...
ATHARVA VEDA America, America, God shed His grace on thee, and crown thy good with brotherhood, from sea to shini...
KATHERINE LEE BATES America! America! God shed his grace on thee, and crown thy good with brotherhood from sea to shinin...
KATHARINE LEE BATES I give thee what is most my own - A Dedication by Francis William Bourdillon
FRANCIS WILLIAM BOURDILLON And the angel said unto him, Gird thyself, and bind on thy sandals. And so he did. And he saith unto...
BIBLE Forgive, O Lord, my little jokes on Thee, and I'll forgive Thy great big joke on me.
ROBERT FROST But Jeremiah said, They shall not deliver thee. Obey, I beseech thee, the voice of the LORD, which I...
BIBLE I charge thee, Satan, housed within this man,
To yield possession to my holy prayers,
And to t...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE On me, on me
Time and change can heap no more!
The painful past with blighting grief
Hat...
RICHARD HENGIST HORNE If thy heart fails thee, climb not at all.
ELIZABETH I Have thy tools ready, God will find thee work
CHARLES KINGSLEY Trust thy self, and another shall not betray thee.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN Have thy tools ready. God will find thee work.
CHARLES KINGSLEY Unto the woman he said, I will greatly multiply thy sorrow and thy conception; in sorrow thou shalt ...
BIBLE Light may earth's crumbling sand be laid on thee, that dogs may dig thy bones up easily
MARCUS AURELIUS Arise, go to Padanaram, to the house of Bethuel thy mother's father; and take thee a wife from thenc...
BIBLE Were floods of tears to be unloosed
In tribute to my grief,
The doves of Noah ne'er had roost
...
CICERO (MARCUS TULLIUS CICERO) Love Him, and keep Him for thy Friend, who, when all go away, will not forsake thee, nor suffer thee...
THOMAS KEMPIS It is as though we are understanding now what (William) Blake intuited, the senses were, in Eden, sp...
PETER REDGROVE Let my supplication come before thee: deliver me according to thy word.
BIBLE The grave is Heaven's golden gate,
And rich and poor around it wait;
O Shepherdess of England'...
WILLIAM BLAKE Do the duty which lieth nearest to thee! Thy second duty will already have become clearer.
THOMAS CARLYLE Creator Venus, genial power of love,
The bliss of men below, and gods above!
Beneath the slidi...
JOHN DRYDEN The desire of our soul is to thy name, and to the remembrance of thee. Isaiah 26:8
BIBLE I thank God, whom I serve from my forefathers with pure conscience, that without ceasing I have reme...
BIBLE Sorrow and the scarlet leaf,
Sad thoughts and sunny weather;
Ah me! this glory and this grief...
THOMAS W. PARSONS The LORD shall bring thee, and thy king which thou shalt set over thee, unto a nation which neither ...
BIBLE White swan of cities, slumbering in thy nest
So wonderfully built among the reeds
Of the lagoo...
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW I have conquered and cleaned thee out (?); I have also gained thy reserve. As the wolf plucks to pie...
ATHARVA VEDA In life's small things be resolute and great
To keep thy muscle trained: knowst thou when Fate
...
JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL
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Every Morn and every Night
Some are bor...
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Beats all the lies you can invent.
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WILLIAM BLAKE He whose face gives no light, shall never become a star.
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Distorts the heavens from pole to pole
And leads you to be...
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WILLIAM BLAKE What is now proved was only once imagined.
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And a heaven in a wild flower,
Hold infinity in the palm of...
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WILLIAM BLAKE Sweet babe, in thy face
Soft desires I can trace,
Secret joys and secret smiles,
Little ...
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With the blood of the grape, pass not, but sit
Beneath...
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Mental friends and mental wealth,
I've a wife that I lov...
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WILLIAM BLAKE Both read the Bible day and night, but thou read black where I read white.
WILLIAM BLAKE Do what you will, this world's a fiction and is made up of contradiction.
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WILLIAM BLAKE A fool sees not the same tree that a wise man sees.
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WILLIAM BLAKE The glory of Christianity is to conquer by forgiveness.
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WILLIAM BLAKE If the Sun and Moon should ever doubt, they'd immediately go out.
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WILLIAM BLAKE I was angry with my friend:
I told my wrath, my wrath did end.
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WILLIAM BLAKE In seed time learn, in harvest teach, in winter enjoy.
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WILLIAM BLAKE I rose up at the dawn of day,--
"Get thee away! get thee away!
Pray'st thou for riches? Away...
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WILLIAM BLAKE The grave is Heaven's golden gate,
And rich and poor around it wait;
O Shepherdess of England'...
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And a heaven in a wild flower:
Hold infinity in the palm of...
WILLIAM BLAKE If a thing loves, it is infinite.
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WILLIAM BLAKE Jesus was all virtue, and acted from impulse, not from rules.
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WILLIAM BLAKE Love is not blind; it simply enables one to see things others fail to see.
WILLIAM BLAKE If the fool would persist in his folly he would become wise.
WILLIAM BLAKE As I was walking among the fires of Hell,
delighted with the enjoyments of Genius;
which t...
WILLIAM BLAKE To see a world in a Grain of Sand,
And a Heaven in a Wild Flower,
Hold Infinity in the palm ...
WILLIAM BLAKE Those who control their passions do so because their passions are weak enough to be controlled.
WILLIAM BLAKE No bird soars too high, if he soars with his own wings.
WILLIAM BLAKE Love seeketh not itself to please,
Nor for itself hath any care,
But for another gives its e...
WILLIAM BLAKE Innocence dwells with Wisdom, but never with Ignorance.
WILLIAM BLAKE I myself do nothing. The Holy Spirit accomplishes all through me.
WILLIAM BLAKE I must create a system, or be enslaved by another man's.
WILLIAM BLAKE I must create a system or be enslaved by another man's.
WILLIAM BLAKE Always be ready to speak your mind and a base man will avoid you.
WILLIAM BLAKE A truth that's told with bad intent, Beats all the lies you can invent.
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WILLIAM BLAKE For everything exists and not one sigh nor smile nor tear, one hair nor particle of dust, not one ca...
WILLIAM BLAKE Truth can never be told so as to be understood, and not be believed.
WILLIAM BLAKE Eternity is in love with the productions of time.
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WILLIAM BLAKE The hours of folly are measured by the clock, but of wisdom no clock can measure.
WILLIAM BLAKE One thought fills immensity.
WILLIAM BLAKE What is the price of experience? Do men buy it for a song? Or wisdom for a dance in the street? No, ...
WILLIAM BLAKE The tigers of wrath are wiser than the horses of instruction.
WILLIAM BLAKE The fool who persists in his folly will become wise.
WILLIAM BLAKE If you have form'd a circle to go into,
Go into it yourself, and see how you would do.
The...
WILLIAM BLAKE Shame is pride's cloak.
WILLIAM BLAKE O thou who passest through our valleys in
Thy strength, curb thy fierce steeds, allay the heat
...
WILLIAM BLAKE The tygers of wrath are wiser than the horses of instruction.
WILLIAM BLAKE O Winter! bar thine adamantine doors:
The north is thine; there hast thou build thy dark,
Dee...
WILLIAM BLAKE His whole life is an epigram smart, smooth and neatly penned, Plaited quite neat to catch applause, ...
WILLIAM BLAKE Active Evil is better than Passive Good.
WILLIAM BLAKE Poetry fettered, fetters the human race. Nations are destroyed or flourish in proportion as their po...
WILLIAM BLAKE And now the time returns again: / Our souls exult, and London's towers / Receive the Lamb of God to ...
WILLIAM BLAKE Every Mortal loss is an Immortal Gain. The Ruins of Time build Mansions in Eternity.
WILLIAM BLAKE The rat, the mouse, the fox, the rabbet; watch the roots.
WILLIAM BLAKE There certainly are moments in history when poets and painters connect so closely as to be one and t...
WILLIAM BLAKE When nations grow old, the arts grow cold and commerce settles on every tree.
WILLIAM BLAKE Mutual Forgiveness of each vice, / Such are the Gates of Paradise.
WILLIAM BLAKE He who desires but acts not, breeds pestilence
WILLIAM BLAKE Thy friendship oft has made my heart to ache; do be my enemy - for friendship's sake
WILLIAM BLAKE Come live, and be merry, and join with me,To sing the sweet chorus of 'Ha ha he!'
WILLIAM BLAKE I am sure this Jesus will not do, / Either for Englishman or Jew.
WILLIAM BLAKE I must create a system or be enslaved by another mans; I will not reason and compare: my business is...
WILLIAM BLAKE He who would do good to another must do it in Minute Particulars: general Good is the plea of the sc...
WILLIAM BLAKE Humility is only doubt, / And does the sun and moon blot out.
WILLIAM BLAKE I have mental joys and mental health,Mental friends and mental wealth,I've a wife that I love and th...
WILLIAM BLAKE If the Sun and Moon should doubt, / They'd immediately go out.
WILLIAM BLAKE excuse my enthusiasm or rather madness, for I am really drunk with intellectual vision whenever I ta...
WILLIAM BLAKE The eyes of fire, the nostrils of air, the mouth of war, the beard of earth.
WILLIAM BLAKE A dog starved at his master's gate, Predicts the ruin of the state
WILLIAM BLAKE Dip him in the river who loves water.
WILLIAM BLAKE Tiger! Tiger! burning bright / In the forests of the night, / What immortal hand or eye / Could fram...
WILLIAM BLAKE Enthusiastic Admiration is the first Principle of Knowledge and its last.
WILLIAM BLAKE For he hears the lambs innocent call.And he hears the ewes tender reply.He is watchful while they ar...
WILLIAM BLAKE Every tear from every eye / Becomes a babe in Eternity.
WILLIAM BLAKE Seek Love in the pity of others' woe,In the gentle relief of another's care,In the darkness of night...
WILLIAM BLAKE Can I see another's woe, and not be in sorrow, too? Can I see another's grief, and not seek for kind...
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