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William Blake
Age: 69 †
Born: 1757
Born: November 28
Died: 1827
Died: August 12
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Graphic Artist
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London
England
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And priests in black gowns were walking their rounds and binding with briars my joys and desires. (from 'The Garden of Love')
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A fool sees not the same tree that a wise man sees.
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Such, such were the joys When we all, girls and boys, In our youth time were seen On the Echoing Green.
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The Old and New Testaments are the Great Code of Art.
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God appears, and God is Light, to those poor souls who dwell in Night but does a Human Form display to those who dwell in realms of Day.
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A DIVINE IMAGE Cruelty has a human heart, And Jealousy a human face Terror the human form divine, And Secresy the human dress. The human dress is forged iron, The human form a fiery forge, The human face a furnace sealed, The human heart its hungry gorge.
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The inquiry in England is not whether a man has talents and genius, but whether he is passive and polite and a virtuous ass and obedient to noblemen's opinions in art and science. If he is, he is a good man. If not, he must be starved.
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Man has no Body distinct from his Soul for that called Body is a portion of Soul discerned by the five Senses, the chief inlets of Soul in this age.
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Ah, sunflower, weary of time, Who countest the steps of the sun, Seeking after that sweet golden clime Where the traveller's journey is done Where the youth pined away with desire And the pale virgin shrouded in snow Arise from their graves, and aspire Where my sunflower wishes to go.
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Love seeketh only self to please, To bind another to its delight, Joys in another's loss of ease, And builds a Hell in Heaven's despite.
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The ignorant Insults of Individuals will not hinder me from doing my duty to my Art
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What is a wife and what is a harlot? What is a church and what is a theatre? are they two and not one? Can they exist separate? Are not religion and politics the same thing? Brotherhood is religion. O demonstrations of reason dividing families in cruelty and pride!
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Invention depends altogether upon execution or organization as that is right or wrong so is the invention perfect or imperfect.
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Reason, or the ratio of all we have already known, is not the same that it shall be when we know more.
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Children of the future age Reading this indignant page Know that in a former time Love, sweet love, was thought a crime
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Work up imagination to the state of vision.
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Man has closed himself up, till he sees all things thro' narrow chinks of his cavern.
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The bird a nest, the spider a web, man friendship.
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It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend.
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They who forgive most shall be most forgiven.
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