William Blake Quotes About Sorrow

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  • Can I see another's woe, and not be in sorrow too? Can I see another's grief, and not seek for kind relief?

    'Songs of Innocence' (1789) 'On Another's Sorrow'
  • The busy bee has no time for sorrow.

    William Blake, William Butler Yeats (2002). “Collected Poems”, p.166, Psychology Press
  • Excessive sorrow laughs. Excessive joy weeps.

    William Blake (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of William Blake (Illustrated)”, p.202, Delphi Classics
  • Some say that happiness is not good for mortals, & they ought to be answered that sorrow is not fit for immortals & is utterly useless to any one; a blight never does good to a tree, & if a blight kill not a tree but it still bear fruit, let none say that the fruit was in consequence of the blight.

    William Blake (1966). “Complete Writings: With Variant Readings”, p.830, Oxford University Press, USA
  • Can I see a falling tear, And not feel my sorrow's share?

    William Blake (2005). “Collected Poems”, p.60, Routledge
  • Nature in darkness groans and men are bound to sullen contemplation in the night: restless they turn on beds of sorrow; in their inmost brain feeling the crushing wheels, they rise, they write the bitter words of stern philosophy and knead the bread of knowledge with tears and groans.

    William Blake (1966). “Complete Writings: With Variant Readings”, p.379, Oxford University Press, USA
  • 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”
  • Sleep, sleep, beauty bright,Dreaming o'er the joys of night.Sleep, sleep: in thy sleepLittle sorrows sit and weep.

    William Blake, David Fuller (2000). “William Blake: Selected Poetry and Prose”, p.151, Pearson Education
  • Praises reap not! Joys laugh not! Sorrows weep not!

    William Blake (2005). “Collected Poems”, p.167, Routledge
  • Can I see another's woe, And not be in sorrow too? Can I see another's grief, And not seek for kind relief? Can I see a falling tear, And not feel my sorrow's share? Can a father see his child Weep, nor be with sorrow filled? Can a mother sit and hear An infant groan, an infant fear? No, no! never can it be! Never, never can it be!

    'Songs of Innocence' (1789) 'On Another's Sorrow'
  • Joys impregnate. Sorrows bring forth.

    William Blake, William Butler Yeats (2002). “Collected Poems”, p.166, Psychology Press
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