William Blake Quotes, Summer Quotes, Art Quotes

Little fly, thy summer's play My thoughtless hand has brushed away. Am not I a fly like thee? Or art not thou a man like me? For I dance and drink and sing, Till some blind hand shall brush my wing!

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I see the Past, Present & Future existing all at once Before me.

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To generalize is to be an idiot.

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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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Some are born to sweet delight, Some are born to endless night.

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Invention depends altogether upon execution or organization; as that is right or wrong so is the invention perfect or imperfect.

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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.

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When Sir Joshua Reynolds died All Nature was degraded; The King dropped a tear in the Queen's ear, And all his pictures faded.

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

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

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Without minute neatness of execution, the sublime cannot exist! Grandeur of ideas is founded on precision of ideas.

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If you would help another man, you must do so in minute particulars.

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Every thing possible to be believ'd is an image of truth.

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To me this world is all one continued vision of fancy or imagination, and I feel flattered when I am told so. What is it sets Homer, Virgil and Milton in so high a rank of art? Why is the Bible more entertaining and instructive than any other book? Is it not because they are addressed to the imagination, which is spiritual sensation, and but immediately to the understanding or reason?

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The lust of the goat is the bounty of God.

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Ah, sunflower, weary of time, Who countest the steps of the sun, Seeking after that sweet golden clime Where the traveller's journey is done; Where the youth pined away with desire And the pale virgin shrouded in snow Arise from their graves, and aspire Where my sunflower wishes to go.

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When a sinister person means to be your enemy, they always start by trying to become your friend.

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To generalize is to be an idiot. To particularize is the alone distinction of merit. General knowledge are those knowledge that idiots possess.

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Both read the Bible day and night, but thou read black where I read white.

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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

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