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Thou art a man God is no more Thy own humanity Learn to adore

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William Blake
Age: 69 †
Born: 1757
Born: November 28
Died: 1827
Died: August 12
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Uil'iam Bleik
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Both read the Bible day and night, but thou read black where I read white.
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Down the winding cavern we groped our tedious way, till a void boundless as the nether sky appeared beneath us, and we held by the roots of trees and hung over this immensity but I said: if you please we will commit ourselves to this void and see whether providence is here also.
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It is the greatest of crimes to depress true art and science.
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How can the bird that is born for joy Sit in a cage and sing? How can a child, when fears annoy, But droop his tender wing, And forget his youthful spring?
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My mother bore me in the southern wild, And I am black, but O! my soul is white White as an angel is the English child, But I am black as if bereaved of light.
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To cast aside from Poetry, all that is not Inspiration
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Dear Mother, dear Mother, the Church is cold, But the Ale-house is healthy and pleasant and warm.
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Think in the morning. Act in the noon. Eat in the evening. Sleep in the night.
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Mysteries are not to be solved. They eye goes blind when it only wants to see why.
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O Autumn, laden with fruit, and stained With the blood of the grape, pass not, but sit Beneath my shady roof there thou may'st rest, And tune thy jolly voice to my fresh pipe And all the daughters of the year shall dance! Sing now the lusty song of fruit and flowers.
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He who does not imagine in stronger and better lineaments, and in stronger and better light than his perishing and mortal eye can see, does not imagine at all.
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To Chloe's breast young Cupid slily stole, But he crept in at Myra's pocket-hole.
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He who would do good to another must do it in minute particulars.
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Mercy, pity, and peace, Are the world's release.
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I love hanging and drawing and quartering Every bit as well as war and slaughtering.
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The soul of sweet delight, can never be defiled.
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The human mind cannot go beyond the gift of God, the Holy Ghost. To suppose that art can go beyond the finest specimens of art that are now in the world is not knowing what art is it is being blind to the gifts of the spirit.
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If a thing loves, it is infinite.
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One Power alone makes a Poet: Imagination. The Divine Vision.
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To some people a tree is something so incredibly beautiful that it brings tears to the eyes. To others it is just a green thing that stands in the way.
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