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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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O white-robed Angel, guide my timorous hand to write as on a lofty rock with iron pen the words of truth, that all who pass may read.
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Improvement makes strait roads, but the crooked roads without Improvement, are roads of Genius.
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Poetry fettered, fetters the human race. Nations are destroyed or flourish in proportion as their poetry, painting, and music are destroyed or flourish.
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I care not whether a man is good or evil all that I care / Is whether he is a wise man or a fool. Go! put off holiness, / And put on intellect.
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Each man is haunted until his humanity awakens.
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Piping down the valleys wild, Piping songs of pleasant glee, On a cloud I saw a child, And he laughing said to me: Pipe a song about a Lamb. So I piped with merry cheer Piper, pipe that song again. So I piped he wept to hear.
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The crow wished everything was black, the Owl, that everything was white.
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If the doors of perception were cleansed everything would appear to man as it is, infinite.
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Since all the riches of this world May be gifts from the Devil and earthly kings, I should suspect that I worshipp'd the Devil If I thank'd my God for worldly things.
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The foundation of empire is art and science. Remove them or degrade them, and the empire is no more. Empire follows art and not vice versa as Englishmen suppose.
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A fool sees not the same tree that a wise man sees.
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Where there is money there is no art.
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Some will say, Is not God alone the Prolific? I answer, God only Acts & Is, in existing beings or Men.
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I'm sure this Jesus will not do Either for Englishman or Jew.
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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.
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When Sir Joshua Reynolds died All Nature was degraded
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To the eyes of the man of imagination, nature is imagination itself.
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