MHH (Plate 7 Proverbs of Hell); Erdman 35:
"He who desires but acts not, breeds pestilence"
MHH (A Memorable Fancy); Erdman 35:
"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?"
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The Immortal Man
"But when once I did descry
The Immortal Man that cannot Die
Thro evening shades I haste away
To close the Labours of my Day"
(Erdman 268)
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Milton, Plate 1, Preface, Erdman 96:
"Would to God that all the Lords people were Prophets.
Numbers XI. ch 29 v."
Blake quoted Moses here. He considered himself a prophet and would like for us to be prophets, too.
Most of his larger poems were 'prophecies', in particular:
Visions of the Daughters of Albion
America A Prophecy
Europe A Prophecy, and of course
Milton and
Jerusalem.
**********************************************From My Spectre around me night & day
Songs and Ballards
"Till I turn from Female Love
And root up the Infernal Grove
I shall never worthy be
To Step into Eternity
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Let us agree to give up Love
And root up the infernal grove
Then shall we return & see
The worlds of happy Eternity" (Erdman 475-6)
(Female Love and Love are synonyms here, but they mean nothing at all what you might think they mean.)
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