William Blake Quotes, Summer Quotes, Flames Quotes

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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The Prophets Isaiah and Ezekiel dined with me, and I asked them how they dared so roundly to assert, that God spoke to them; and whether they did not think at the time, that they would be misunderstood, & so be the cause of imposition. Isaiah answer'd, I saw no God, nor heard any, in a finite organical perception; but my senses discover'd the infinite in every thing, and as I was then persuaded, & remain confirm'd; that the voice of honest indignation is the voice of God, I cared not for consequences but wrote.

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Naught can deform the human race Like to the armor's iron brace.

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Man has closed himself up, till he sees all things thro' narrow chinks of his cavern.

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I give you the end of a golden string, Only wind it into a ball, It will lead you in at Heaven's gate Built in Jerusalem's wall.

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Hold infinity in the palm of your hand.

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A dead body revenges not injuries.

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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.

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To cast aside from Poetry, all that is not Inspiration

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The fields from Islington to Marybone, To Primrose Hill and Saint John's Wood, Were builded over with pillars of gold; And there Jerusalem's pillars stood.

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Mutual forgiveness of each vice. Such are the Gates of Paradise.

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I will not cease from mental fight Nor shall my sword sleep in my hand.

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Each man is haunted until his humanity awakens.

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One Power alone makes a Poet: Imagination. The Divine Vision.

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

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There is a place where Contrarieties are equally True.

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Wisdom is sold in a desolate marketplace where none can come to buy.

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When the stars threw down their spears, and watered heaven with their tears, did he smile his work to see? Did he who made the Lamb make thee?

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The human mind cannot go beyond the gift of God, the Holy Ghost. To suppose that art can go beyond the finest specimens of art that are now in the world is not knowing what art is; it is being blind to the gifts of the spirit.

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The vision of Christ that thou dost see is my vision's greatest enemy . Both read the Bible day and night, but thou read'st black where I read white. His seventy disciples sent against religion and government .

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