William Blake Quotes, Imagination Quotes

Nature has no outline. Imagination has.

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My silks and fine array, My smiles and languished air, By love are driv'n away And mournful lean Despair Brings me yew to deck my grave: Such end true lovers have.

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Expect poison from the standing water.

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A dog starv'd at the master's gate Predicts the ruin of the State. A horse misus'd upon the road Calls to heaven for human blood. Each outcry of the hunted hare A fibre from the brain does tear, A skylark wounded on the wing, A cherubim does cease to sing.

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As the caterpillar chooses the fairest leaves to lay her eggs on, so the priest lays his curse on the fairest joys.

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Men are admitted into heaven not because they have curbed and governed their passions or have no passions, but because they have cultivated their understandings. The treasures of heaven are not negations of passion, but realities of intellect, from which all the passions emanate uncurbed in their eternal glory.

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Although wine when it is read somewhat lacks the savour of wine when it is drunk, wine remains a very pleasant thing both to read about and to chat about.

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The imagination is not a state: it is the human existence itself.

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The foundation of empire is art and science. Remove them or degrade them, and the empire is no more. Empire follows art and not vice versa as Englishmen suppose.

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

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God appears, and God is Light, to those poor souls who dwell in Night; but does a Human Form display to those who dwell in realms of Day.

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The ancient Poets animated all sensible objects with Gods or Geniuses, calling them by the names and adorning them with the properties of woods, rivers, mountains, lakes, cities, nations, and whatever their enlarged & numerous senses could perceive.

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Without contraries is no progression. Attraction and repulsion, reason and energy, love and hate, are necessary to human existence.

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Each man is haunted until his humanity awakens.

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The lust of the goat is the bounty of God.

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Never seek to tell thy love; Love that never told can be. For the gentle wind does move silently.. invisibly.

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Without contraries there is no progression.

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The ignorant Insults of Individuals will not hinder me from doing my duty to my Art

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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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Improvement makes strait roads, but the crooked roads without Improvement, are roads of Genius.

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