William Blake Quotes

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I am under the direction of messengers from Heaven daily and nightly.

William Blake
The human mind cannot go beyond the gift of God, the Holy Ghost. To suppose that art can go beyond the finest specimens of art that are now in the world is not knowing what art is; it is being blind to the gifts of the spirit.

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I have mental joys and mental health, Mental friends and mental wealth, I've a wife that I love and that loves me; I've all but riches bodily.

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Both read the Bible day and night,
But thou read'st black where I read white.

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The Fool shall not enter into Heaven let him be ever so Holy.

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Father, O father! what do we here
In this land of unbelief and fear?

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Since all the riches of this world
May be gifts from the Devil and earthly kings,
I should suspect that I worshipp'd the Devil
If I thank'd my God for worldly things.

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He who does not imagine in stronger and better lineaments, and in stronger and better light than his perishing and mortal eye can see, does not imagine at all.

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Thou fair-hair'd angel of the evening, Now, whilst the sun rests on the mountains, light Thy bright torch of love; thy radiant crown Put on, and smile upon our evening bed!

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Since the French Revolution Englishmen are all intermeasurable one by another, certainly a happy state of agreement to which I forone do not agree.

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The child's toys and the old man's reasons are the fruits of two seasons.

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Such, such were the joys
When we all, girls and boys,
In our youth time were seen
On the Echoing Green.

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Kill not the moth nor butterfly, For the Last Judgement draweth nigh.

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For the Chaotic Voids outside of the Stars are measured by The Stars...

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Gratitude is heaven itself; there could be no heaven without gratitude.

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The spirits of the air live on the smells Of fruit; and joy, with pinions light, roves round The gardens, or sits singing in the trees...

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All is to them a dull round of probabilities and possibilities.

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Where lambs have nibbled, silent moves the feet of angels bright; unseen they pour blessing, and joy without ceasing, on each bud and blossom, and each sleeping bosom.

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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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He who can be bound down is no Genius. Genius cannot be Bound.

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Works of Art can only be produc'd in Perfection where the Man is either in Affluence or is Above the Care of it.

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All pictures that's painted with sense and with thought / Are painted by madmen as sure as a groat; / For the greater the fool in the pencil more blest, / And when they are drunk they always paint best.

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If you have form'd a circle to go into,
Go into it yourself, and see how you would do.

They said this mystery never shall cease:
The priest promotes war, and the soldier peace.

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Come live, and be merry, and join with me, To sing the sweet chorus of 'Ha ha he!

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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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For where'er the sun does shine,
And where'er the rain does fall,
Babe can never hunger there,
Nor poverty the mind appall.

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The grave is Heaven's golden gate,
And rich and poor around it wait;
O Shepherdess of England's fold,
Behold this gate of pearl and gold!

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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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The ignorant Insults of Individuals will not hinder me from doing my duty to my Art

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Colouring does not depend on where the colours are put, but on where the lights and darks are put, and all depends on form and outline, on where that is put.

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