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William Blake
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William Blake
Age: 69 †
Born: 1757
Born: November 28
Died: 1827
Died: August 12
Collector
Engraver
Graphic Artist
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London
England
W. Blake
Uil'iam Bleik
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More quotes by William Blake
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.
William Blake
Every thing possible to be believ'd is an image of truth.
William Blake
Poetry, Painting & Music, the three Powers in man of conversing with Paradise, which the flood did not sweep away.
William Blake
All pictures that's painted with sense and with thought / Are painted by madmen as sure as a groat / For the greater the fool in the pencil more blest, / And when they are drunk they always paint best.
William Blake
I myself do nothing. The Holy Spirit accomplishes all through me.
William Blake
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.
William Blake
There can be no Good Will. Will is always Evil it is persecution to others or selfishness.
William Blake
In your own bosom you bear your heaven and earth, And all you behold, though it appears without, It is within, in your imagination, Of which this world of mortality is but a shadow.
William Blake
Excessive sorrow laughs. Excessive joy weeps.
William Blake
I see through my eyes, not with them.
William Blake
Every man who is not an artist is a traitor to his own nature.
William Blake
The countless gold of a merry heart, The rubies and pearls of a loving eye, The indolent never can bring to the mart, Nor the secret hoard up in his treasury.
William Blake
Everything is beautiful in its own way. Exuberance is beauty.
William Blake
Pride is a personal commitment. It is an attitude which separates excellence from mediocrity.
William Blake
What seems to be, is, to those to whom it seems to be, and is productive of the most dreadful consequences to those to whom it seems to be, even of torments, despair, eternal death.
William Blake
A good local pub has much in common with a church, except that a pub is warmer, and there's more conversation.
William Blake
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?
William Blake
I must create a system or be enslaved by another mans I will not reason and compare: my business is to create.
William Blake
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.
William Blake
A tyrant is the worst disease, and the cause of all others.
William Blake
