Brilliant Blake

Not being much poetry fan, I can’t say I particularly enjoy reading the work of William Blake. However, he has written some rather wise words in his poem, “The Marriage of Heaven and Hell.” Here are some Proverbs of Hell with which I heartily agree, or at least which made me think:

The most sublime act is to set another before you.

The pride of the peacock is the glory of God.

Excess of sorrow laughs. Excess of joy weeps.

The bird a nest, the spider a web, man friendship.

What is now proved was once only imagin’d.

You never know what is enough unless you know what is more than enough.

If others had not been foolish, we should be so.

Exuberance is Beauty.

Truth can never be told so as to be understood, and not be believ’d.