William Blake Quotes

Everything to be imagined is an image of truth.

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God is the poetic genius in each of us.

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He who pretends to be either painter or engraver without being a master of drawing is an imposter.

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Do what you will this life's a fiction, And is made up of contradiction.

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The ruins of time build mansions in eternity.

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To Mercy Pity Peace and Love All pray in their distress, And to these virtues of delight Return their thankfulness. For Mercy Pity Peace and Love Is God our father dear. And Mercy Pity Peace and Love Is Man his child and care. Then every man of every clime That prays in his distress Prays to the human form divine: Love Mercy Pity Peace. And all must love the human form In heathen, Turk, or Jew. Where Mercy, Love and Pity dwell There God is dwelling too.

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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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Come o'er the eastern hills, and let our winds Kiss thy perfumed garments; let us taste Thy morn and evening breath; scatter thy pearls Upon our love-sick land that mourns for thee.

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The Vision of Christ that thou dost see, Is my vision's greatest enemy. Thine is the Friend of all Mankind, Mine speaks in Parables to the blind. Thine loves the same world that mine hates, Thy heaven-doors are my hell gates.

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Come live, and be merry, and join with me, To sing the sweet chorus of 'Ha ha he!

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A good local pub has much in common with a church, except that a pub is warmer, and there's more conversation.

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Sweet babe, in thy face Soft desires I can trace, Secret joys and secret smiles, Little pretty infant wiles.

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Those who restrain desire, do so because theirs is weak enough to be restrained.

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O Autumn, laden with fruit, and stained With the blood of the grape, pass not, but sit Beneath my shady roof; there thou may'st rest, And tune thy jolly voice to my fresh pipe; And all the daughters of the year shall dance! Sing now the lusty song of fruit and flowers.

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I'm sure this Jesus will not do Either for Englishman or Jew.

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The reason Milton wrote in fetters when he wrote of Angels and God, and at liberty when of Devils and Hell, is because he was a true poet and of the Devil's party without knowing it.

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Can I see a falling tear, And not feel my sorrow's share?

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Enlightenment means taking full responsibility for your life.

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A robin redbreast in a cage Puts all heaven in a rage.

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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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