William Blake Quotes, Imagination Quotes, States Quotes

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

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The vision of Christ that thou dost see Is my vision's greatest enemy.

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When I tell the truth, it is not for the sake of convincing those who do not know it, but for the sake of defending those that do.

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Mans desires are limited by his perceptions; none can desire what he has not perceived.

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When Sir Joshua Reynolds died All Nature was degraded

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

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More! More! is the cry of a mistaken soul.

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Like a fiend in a cloud, With howling woe, After night I do crowd, And with night will go; I turn my back to the east, From whence comforts have increased; For light doth seize my brain With frantic pain.

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I have no name: I am but two days old. What shall I call thee? I happy am, Joy is my name. Sweet joy befall thee!

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As we are, so we see.

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He who binds to himself a joy Does the winged life destroy; But he who kisses the joy as it flies Lives in eternity's sun rise.

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Mercy, pity, and peace, Are the world's release.

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The Britons (say historians) were naked, civilized men, learned, studious, abstruse in thought and contemplation; naked, simple, plain in their acts and manners; wiser than after ages.

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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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All futurity seems teeming with endless destruction never to be repelled; Desperate remorse swallows the present in a quenchless rage.

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Art is the tree of life. Science is the tree of death.

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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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I asked a thief to steal me a peach: He turned up his eyes. I asked a lithe lady to lie her down: Holy and meek, she cries. As soon as I went An angel came. He winked at the thief And smiled at the dame- And without one word spoke Had a peach from the tree, And 'twixt earnest and joke Enjoyed the lady.

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

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When the voices of children are heard on the greenAnd laughing is heard on the hill,My heart is at rest within my breastAnd everything else is still.

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