Quote

'Come hither, my boy, tell me what thou seest there?' 'A fool tangled in a religious snare.'

William Blake

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

William Blake
Age: 69 †
Born: 1757
Born: November 28
Died: 1827
Died: August 12
Collector
Engraver
Graphic Artist
Illustrator
Lithographer
Painter
Philosopher
Poet
Printer
Theologian
London
England
W. Blake
Uil'iam Bleik
Blake
Tangled
Thou
Atheism
Fool
Boys
Religious
Hither
Tell
Snare
Come
Snares

More quotes by William Blake

Image
Such, such were the joys When we all, girls and boys, In our youth time were seen On the Echoing Green.
William Blake
Image
Without Unceasing Practice nothing can be done. Practice is Art. If you leave off you are lost.
William Blake
Image
The crow wished everything was black, the Owl, that everything was white.
William Blake
Image
The hand of Vengeance found the Bed To which the Purple Tyrant fled The iron hand crush'd the tyrant's head And became Tyrant in his stead.
William Blake
Image
Works of Art can only be produc'd in Perfection where the Man is either in Affluence or is Above the Care of it.
William Blake
Image
For I dance And drink and sing, Till some blind hand Shall brush my wing. If thought is life And strength and breath And the want Of thought is death Then am I A happy fly If I live Or if I die
William Blake
Image
What is it men in women do require: The lineaments of gratified desire. What is it women do in men require: The lineaments of gratified desire.
William Blake
Image
Poetry fettered, fetters the human race. Nations are destroyed or flourish in proportion as their poetry, painting, and music are destroyed or flourish.
William Blake
Image
I must create a system or be enslaved by another mans I will not reason and compare: my business is to create.
William Blake
Image
Thy friendship oft has made my heart to ache: do be my enemy for friendship's sake.
William Blake
Image
What is grand is necessarily obscure to weak men. That which can be made explicit to the idiot is not worth my care.
William Blake
Image
Then the Parson might preach, & drink, & sing, And we'd be as happy as birds in the spring And modest dame Lurch, who is always at Church, Would not have bandy children, nor fasting, nor birch.
William Blake
Image
Those who restrain desire, do so because theirs is weak enough to be restrained and the restrainer or reason usurps its place & governs the unwilling. And being restrain'd it by degrees becomes passive till it is only the shadow of desire.
William Blake
Image
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.
William Blake
Image
They who forgive most shall be most forgiven.
William Blake
Image
Kill not the moth nor butterfly, For the Last Judgement draweth nigh.
William Blake
Image
The fox condemns the trap, not himself.
William Blake
Image
One thought fills immensity.
William Blake
Image
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.
William Blake
Image
The ignorant Insults of Individuals will not hinder me from doing my duty to my Art
William Blake