William Blake Quotes

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Struggling in my father's hands,
Striving against my swaddling bands,
Bound and weary, I thought best
To sulk upon my mother's breast.

William Blake
Forgive what you do not approve & love me for this energetic exertion of my talent

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To teach doubt and Experiment Certainly was not what Christ meant.

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Tools were made and born were hands, Every farmer understands.

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The generations of men run on in the tide of time, but leave their destined lineaments permanent for ever and ever.

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The little ones leaped, and shouted, and laugh'd
And all the hills echoed

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If you, who are organised by Divine Providence for spiritual communion, refuse, and bury your talent in the earth, even though you should want natural bread, sorrow and desperation pursue you through life, and after death shame and confusion of face to eternity.

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To create a little flower is the labor of ages.

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Innate ideas are in every man, born with him; they are truly himself. The man who says that we have no innate ideas must be a fool and knave, having no conscience or innate science.

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The worship of God is, Honouring his gifts in other men each according to his genius, and loving the greatest men best; those who envy or calumniate great men hate God, for there is no other God.

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As to that false appearance which appears to the reasoner As of a Globe rolling thro' Voidness, it is a delusion of Ulro. The Microscope knows not of this nor the Telescope: they alter The ratio of the Spectator's Organs, but leave Objects untouch'd.

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God keep me... from supposing Up and Down to be the same thing as all experimentalists must suppose.

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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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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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!

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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.

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

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

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