William Blake

William Blake was an English poet, painter, and printmaker. Largely unrecognised during his lifetime, Blake is now considered a seminal figure in the history of both the poetry and visual arts of the Romantic Age. His prophetic poetry has been said more..

“William Blake:Enough! or too much.#

“William Blake: What is now proved was only once imagined. #Imagination

“William Blake: What is the price of experience? Do men buy it for a song? Or wisdom for a dance in the street? No, it is bought with the price of all the man hath, his house, his wife, his children. #Wisdom

“William Blake: Always be ready to speak your mind, and a base man will avoid you. #Candor

“William Blake: He who would do good to another must do it in Minute Particulars: general Good is the plea of the scoundrel, hypocrite, and flatterer, for Art and Science cannot exist but in minutely organized Particulars. #Altruism

“William Blake:When my mother died I was very young,#Death and DyingAnd my father sold me while yet my tongueCould scarcely cry 'weep! 'weep! 'weep!'weep!So your chimneys I sweep, and in soot I sleep.

“William Blake:When I tell the truth, it is not for the sake of convincing those who do not know it, but for the sake of defending those that do. #Truth

“William Blake: You cannot have Liberty in this world without what you call Moral Virtue, and you cannot have Moral Virtue without the slavery of that half of the human race who hate what you call Moral Virtue. #Liberty

“William Blake: Fun I love, but too much fun is of all things the most loathsome. Mirth is better than fun, and happiness is better than mirth. #Fun

“William Blake:Reason, or the ratio of all we have already known, is not the same that it shall be when we know more.#Morality

“William Blake:I myself do nothing. The Holy Spirit accomplishes all through me. #Spirit and Spirituality

“William Blake: The generations of men run on in the tide of time, but leave their destined lineaments permanent for ever and ever. #Generations

“William Blake: The tree which moves some to tears of joy is in the eyes of others only a green thing that stands in the way. Some see nature all ridicule and deformity... and some scarce see nature at all. But to the eyes of the man of imagination, nature is imagination itself. #Nature

“William Blake: He whose face gives no light, shall never become a star. #Stardom

“William Blake: Expect poison from standing water. #Idleness

“William Blake: The man who never alters his opinion is like standing water, and breeds reptiles of the mind. #Opinions

“William Blake: The truth told with bad intent Beats all the lies you can invent #Truth

“William Blake:There can be no Good Will. Will is always Evil; it is persecution to others or selfishness.#Persecution

“William Blake:Never seek to tell thy love#Love

Love that never told can be;For the gentle wind does moveSilently, invisibly.

I told my love, I told my love,I told her all my heart;Trembling, cold, in ghastly fears—Ah, she doth depart.

Soon as she was gone from meA traveler came bySilently, invisibly—Oh, was no deny.

“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. #Illusion

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