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William Blake

1757-1827 ,  English poet & painter
William BlakeEnglish poet, painter, and printmaker. Largely unrecognized during his lifetime, Blake is now considered a seminal figure in the history of the poetry and visual arts of the Romantic Age.

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

When I tell any Truth it is not for the sake of convincing those who do not know it but for the sake of defending those who do.

Make your own rules or be a slave to another man's.

The nakedness of woman is the work of God.

In the universe, there are things that are known, and things that are unknown, and in between, there are doors.

Prisons are built with stones of law; brothels with bricks of religion.

If the doors of perception were cleansed, everything would appear to man as it is: infinite.

General Knowledges are those Knowledges that Idiots possess.

Every harlot was a virgin once.

I myself do nothing. The Holy Spirit accomplishes all through me.

The weak in courage is strong in cunning.

Truth can never be told so as to be understood and not be believed.

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

Do what you will, this world's a fiction and is made up of contradiction.

Eternity is in love with the productions of time.

Excessive sorrow laughs. Excessive joy weeps.

The most sublime act is to set another before you.

Mysteries are not to be solved. They eye goes blind when it only wants to see why.

Everything to be imagined is an image of truth.

Fun I love, but too much fun is of all things the most loathsome. Mirth is better than fun and happiness is better than mirth.

What is grand is necessarily obscure to weak men. That which can be made explicit to the idiot is not worth my care.

If the fool would persist in his folly he would become wise.

Art can never exist without Naked Beauty displayed.

The true method of knowledge is experiment.

It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend.

Joys impregnate. Sorrows bring forth.

Better to shun the bait than struggle in the snare.

Shame is pride's cloak.

A fool sees not the same tree that a wise man sees.

Mercy is the golden chain by which society is bound together.

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

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

He who loves his enemies betrays his friends; this surely is not what Jesus meant.

He whose face gives no light, shall never become a star.

Poetry, Painting & Music, the three powers in man of conversing with paradise, which the flood did not sweep away.

You never know what is enough unless you know what is more than enough.

Think in the morning. Act in the noon. Eat in the evening. Sleep in the night.

The tygers of wrath are wiser than the horses of instruction.

The road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom.

The man who never alters his opinion is like standing water, and breeds reptiles of the mind.

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

The goddess fortune is the devil’s servant ready to kiss any ones arse.

Active Evil is better than Passive Good.

First thought is best in Art, second in other matters.

Expect poison from the standing water.

He who would do good to another must do it in minute particulars.

Knowledge is Life with wings

Quotes in Verse

Tyger! Tyger! burning bright In the forests of the night,
What immortal hand or eye
Could frame thy fearful symmetry?


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


To see a World in a Grain of Sand
And a Heaven in a Wild Flower.
Hold Infinity in the palm of your hand
And Eternity in an hour.


A truth that's told with bad intent
Beats all the lies you can invent.


When nations grow old, the Arts grow cold,
And Commerce settles on every tree.


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


Love seeketh only self to please,
To bind another to its delight,
Joys in another's loss of ease,
And builds a Hell in Heaven's despite.


If the Sun and Moon should ever doubt, they'd immediately go out.

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


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