The Four Zoas Quotes

“It is an easy thing to rejoice in the tents of prosperity”
― William Blake, The Four Zoas: The Torments of Love and Jealousy in the Death and Judgment of Albion the Ancient Man

“And all the arts of life they changd into the arts of death
The hour glass contemnd because its simple workmanship
Was as the workmanship of the plowman & the water wheel
That raises water into Cisterns broken & burnd in fire
Because its workmanship was like the workmanship of the Shepherd
And in their stead intricate wheels invented Wheel without wheel
To perplex youth in their outgoings & to bind to labours
Of day & night the myriads of Eternity. that they might file
And polish brass & iron hour after hour laborious workmanship
Kept ignorant of the use that they might spend the days of wisdom
In sorrowful drudgery to obtain a scanty pittance of bread
In ignorance to view a small portion & think that All
And call it Demonstration blind to all the simple rules of life”
― William Blake, The Four Zoas: The Torments of Love and Jealousy in the Death and Judgment of Albion the Ancient Man