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First thought is best in Art, second in other matters.
William Blake
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William Blake
Age: 69 †
Born: 1757
Born: November 28
Died: 1827
Died: August 12
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But to go to school in a summer morn, O! It drives all joy away Under a cruel eye outworn, The little ones spend the day In sighing and dismay.
William Blake
When the sun rises, do you not see a round disc of fire somewhat like a guinea? O no, no, I see an innumerable company of the heavenly host crying Holy, Holy, Holy is the Lord God Almighty.
William Blake
Hold infinity in the palm of your hand.
William Blake
When my mother died I was very young, And my father sold me while yet my tongue Could scarcely cry weep weep weep weep. So your chimneys I sweep, and in soot I sleep.
William Blake
Those who restrain their desires, do so because theirs is weak enough to be restrained.
William Blake
But if at church they would give some ale. And a pleasant fire our souls to regale. We'd sing and we'd pray all the live long day, Nor ever once from the church to stray.
William Blake
Innocence dwells with Wisdom, but never with ignorance.
William Blake
A dog starv'd at the master's gate Predicts the ruin of the State. A horse misus'd upon the road Calls to heaven for human blood. Each outcry of the hunted hare A fibre from the brain does tear, A skylark wounded on the wing, A cherubim does cease to sing.
William Blake
My mother groaned, my father wept, into the dangerous world I leapt.
William Blake
Improvement makes strait roads, but the crooked roads without Improvement, are roads of Genius.
William Blake
The reason Milton wrote in fetters when he wrote of Angels and God, and at liberty when of Devils and Hell, is because he was a true poet and of the Devil's party without knowing it.
William Blake
O God, protect me from my friends, that they have not power over me. Thou hast giv'n me power to protect myself from thy bitterest enemies.
William Blake
The road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom.
William Blake
Thou art a man God is no more Thy own humanity Learn to adore
William Blake
To create a little flower is the labour of ages.
William Blake
I myself do nothing. The Holy Spirit accomplishes all through me.
William Blake
I must create a system, or be enslav'd by another man's.
William Blake
Naught can deform the human race Like to the armor's iron brace.
William Blake
Does a firm persuasion that a thing is so, make it so? He replied, All poets believe it does. And in ages of imagination, this firm persuasion removes mountains but many are not capable of firm persuasion of anything.
William Blake
One Power alone makes a Poet: Imagination. The Divine Vision.
William Blake
