William Blake Quotes

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Without minute neatness of execution, the sublime cannot exist! Grandeur of ideas is founded on precision of ideas.

William Blake
Every wolf's and lion's howl
Raises from Hell a human soul.

William Blake
Poetry, Painting & Music, the three Powers in man of conversing with Paradise, which the flood did not sweep away.

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

William Blake
Prepare your hearts for Death's cold hand! prepare
Your souls for flight, your bodies for the earth;
Prepare your arms for glorious victory;
Prepare your eyes to meet a holy God!
Prepare, prepare!

William Blake
Demonstration, similitude & harmony are objects of reasoning. Invention, identity & melody are objects of intuition.

William Blake
Knowledge of ideal beauty is not to be acquired. It is born with us. Innate ideas are in every man, born with him; theyare truly himself.

William Blake
Rome & Greece swept Art into their maw & destroy'd it; a Warlike State never can produce Art. It will Rob & Plunder & accumulate into one place, & Translate & Copy & Buy & Sell & Criticize, but not Make.

William Blake
For everything exists and not one sigh nor smile nor tear, one hair nor particle of dust, not one can pass away.

William Blake
The Man who pretends to be a modest enquirer into the truth of a self-evident thing is a Knave.

William Blake
In your own bosom you bear your heaven and earth,
And all you behold, though it appears without,
It is within, in your imagination,
Of which this world of mortality is but a shadow.

William Blake
The pure soul shall mount on native wings,... and cut a path into the heaven of glory.

William Blake
A skylark wounded in the wing, / A cherubim does cease to sing.

William Blake
Why cannot the ear be closed to its own destruction?
Or the glistening eye to the poison of a smile?

William Blake
The Woman that does not love your Frowns Will never embrace your smiles.

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Dear Mother, dear Mother, the Church is cold, But the Ale-house is healthy and pleasant and warm.

William Blake
Why stand we here trembling around, calling on God for help, and not ourselves, in whom God dwells?

William Blake
Without Unceasing Practice nothing can be done. Practice is Art. If you leave off you are lost.

William Blake
Invention depends altogether upon execution or organization; as that is right or wrong so is the invention perfect or imperfect.

William Blake
Nature has no tune: but Imagination has! Nature has no supernatural & dissolves: Imagination is Eternity.

William Blake