William Blake Quotes

Everything to be imagined is an image of truth.

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Does the Eagle know what is in the pit Or wilt thou go ask the Mole? Can Wisdom be put in a silver rod, Or Love in a golden bowl?

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Tools were made and born were hands, Every farmer understands.

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Does a firm persuasion that a thing is so, make it so?" He replied, "All poets believe it does. And in ages of imagination, this firm persuasion removes mountains; but many are not capable of firm persuasion of anything.

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The best wine is the oldest, the best water the newest.

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Innate ideas are in every man, born with him; they are truly himself. The man who says that we have no innate ideas must be a fool and knave, having no conscience or innate science.

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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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What is now proved was once only imagined.

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How sweet I roamed from field to field, And tasted all the summer's pride, Till I the prince of love beheld, Who in the sunny beams did glide!

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I turn my eyes to the schools & universities of Europe And there behold the loom of Locke whose woof rages dire, Washed by the water-wheels of Newton. Black the cloth In heavy wreaths folds over every nation; cruel works Of many wheels I view, wheel without wheel, with cogs tyrannic Moving by compulsion each other: not as those in Eden, which Wheel within wheel in freedom revolve, in harmony & peace.

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To the eyes of the man of imagination, nature is imagination itself.

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Where mercy, love, and pity dwell, there God is dwelling too.

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The look of love alarms Because 'tis filled with fire; But the look of soft deceit Shall win the lover's hire.

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Innocence dwells with Wisdom, but never with ignorance.

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Dear Mother, dear Mother, the Church is cold, But the Ale-house is healthy and pleasant and warm.

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The Stolen and Perverted Writings of Homer & Ovid, of Plato & Cicero, which all men ought to contemn, are set up by artifice against the Sublime of the Bible

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How can a bird that is born for joy Sit in a cage and sing?

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He who does not imagine in stronger and better lineaments, and in stronger and better light than his perishing and mortal eye can see, does not imagine at all.

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There can be no Good Will. Will is always Evil; it is persecution to others or selfishness.

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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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