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Colouring does not depend on where the colours are put, but on where the lights and darks are put, and all depends on form and outline, on where that is put.
William Blake
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William Blake
Age: 69 †
Born: 1757
Born: November 28
Died: 1827
Died: August 12
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Truth can never be told so as to be understood and not be believed.
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Mans desires are limited by his perceptions none can desire what he has not perceived.
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The man who never alters his opinions is like standing water, and breeds reptiles of the mind.
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And we are put on earth a little space, That we may learn to bear the beams of love.
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If you have form'd a circle to go into, Go into it yourself, and see how you would do. They said this mystery never shall cease: The priest promotes war, and the soldier peace.
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O thou who passest through our valleys in Thy strength, curb thy fierce steeds, allay the heat That flames from their large nostrils! Thou, O Summer, Oft pitchest here thy golden tent, and oft Beneath our oaks hast slept, while we beheld With joy thy ruddy limbs and flourishing hair.
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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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I rest not from my great task! | To open the Eternal Worlds, | to open the immortal Eyes of Man | Inwards into the Worlds of Thought | Into eternity, ever expanding | In the Bosom of God, | The Human Imagination
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On no other ground Can I sow my seed Without tearing up Some stinking weed.
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The apple tree never asks the beech how he shall grow, nor the lion, the horse, how he shall take his prey.
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My silks and fine array, My smiles and languished air, By love are driv'n away And mournful lean Despair Brings me yew to deck my grave: Such end true lovers have.
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To generalize is to be an idiot.
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The difference between a bad artist and a good one is: the bad artist seems to copy a great deal the good one really does.
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And I watered it in fears, Night and morning with my tears And I sunned it with smiles, And with soft deceitful wiles.
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I was angry with my friend: I told my wrath, my wrath did end. I was angry with my foe: I told it not, my wrath did grow.
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God is the poetic genius in each of us.
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The Man who never in his Mind & Thoughts travel'd to Heaven Is No Artist.
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Works of Art can only be produc'd in Perfection where the Man is either in Affluence or is Above the Care of it.
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I myself do nothing. The Holy Spirit accomplishes all through me.
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Lives in eternity's sun rise.
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