William Blake Joy Quotations

Excess of sorrow laughs, excess of joy weeps.

But to go to school in a summer morn, Oh, it drives all joy away! Under a cruel eye outworn, The little ones spend the day in sighing and dismay

And I made a rural pen, / And I stained the water clear, / And I wrote my happy songs / Every child may joy to hear.

He who kisses joy as it flies by will live in eternity's sunrise.

Energy is eternal delight.

As the caterpillar chooses the fairest leaves to lay her eggs on, so the priest lays his curse on the fairest joys.

Joys impregnate. Sorrows bring forth.

Sweet babe, in thy face Soft desires I can trace, Secret joys and secret smiles, Little pretty infant wiles.

And priests in black gowns were walking their rounds and binding with briars my joys and desires. (from 'The Garden of Love')

I have mental joys and mental health, Mental friends and mental wealth, I've a wife that I love and that loves me; I've all but riches bodily.

Joy and woe are woven fine.

The Angel that presided o'er my birth Said, 'Little creature, formed of joy and mirth, Go love without the help of any thing on earth'...

Man was made for joy and woe Then when this we rightly know Through the world we safely go. Joy and woe are woven fine A clothing for the soul to bind.

How can a bird that is born for joy Sit in a cage and sing?

Where others see but the dawn coming over the hill, I see the soul of God shouting for joy.

Praises reap not! Joys laugh not! Sorrows weep not!