William Blake Quotes, Thinking Quotes, Ezekiel Quotes

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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The soul of sweet delight, can never be defiled.

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The naked women's body is a portion of eternity too great for the eye of man.

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Poetry fettered, fetters the human race. Nations are destroyed or flourish in proportion as their poetry, painting, and music are destroyed or flourish.

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If you trap the moment before it's ripe, The tears of repentence you'll certainly wipe; But if once you let the ripe moment go You can never wipe off the tears of woe.

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Exuberance is beauty.

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Every harlot was a virgin once.

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God is the poetic genius in each of us.

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Nature has no outline. Imagination has.

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The Whole Business of Man is The Arts, & All Things Common.

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The most sublime act is to set another before you.

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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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God keep me from the divinity of Yes and Nothe Yea Nay Creeping Jesus, from supposing Up and Down to be the same thing as allexperimentalists must suppose.

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The bird a nest, the spider a web, man friendship.

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

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Then the Parson might preach, & drink, & sing, And we'd be as happy as birds in the spring; And modest dame Lurch, who is always at Church, Would not have bandy children, nor fasting, nor birch.

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I care not whether a man is good or evil; all that I care / Is whether he is a wise man or a fool. Go! put off holiness, / And put on intellect.

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As a man is, so he sees. As the eye is formed, such are its powers.

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

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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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