William Blake Quotes - Page 6

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• The strongest poison ever known came from Caesar's laurel crown.

  William Blake

  Poison, Crowns, Fame

  'Auguries of Innocence' (c.1803) l. 97

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

  William Blake

  Wise, Photography, Teaching

  'The Marriage of Heaven and Hell' (1790-3) 'Proverbs of Hell'

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• The hours of folly are measured by the clock; but of wisdom, no clock can measure.

  William Blake

  Wisdom, Time, Artist

  William Blake, W. H. Stevenson (2007). “Blake: The Complete Poems”, p.114, Pearson Education

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• A tyrant is the worst disease, and the cause of all others.

  William Blake

  Tyrants, Disease, Causes

  William Blake (1977). “The Portable William Blake”, p.380, Penguin

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• Children of the future age Reading this indignant page Know that in a former time Love, sweet love, was thought a crime

  William Blake

  Sweet, Children, Reading

  'Songs of Experience' (1794) 'A Little Girl Lost'

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• Thy friendship oft has made my heart to ache: do be my enemy for friendship's sake.

  William Blake

  Friendship, Loyalty, Heart

  William Blake (2000). “The Selected Poems of William Blake”, p.163, Wordsworth Editions

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• It is an easy thing to talk of patience to the afflicted.

  William Blake

  Affliction, Easy, Easy Things

  William Blake, David Fuller (2000). “William Blake: Selected Poetry and Prose”, p.249, Pearson Education

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• Pay attention to minute particulars. Take care of the little ones. Generalization and abstraction are the plea of the hypocrite, scoundrel, and knave.

  William Blake

  Hypocrite, Hypocrisy, Attention

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• My mother groaned, my father wept, into the dangerous world I leapt.

  William Blake

  Birthday, Mother, Father

  'Songs of Experience' (1794) 'Infant Sorrow'

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• He who makes his law a curse, by his own law shall surely die.

  William Blake

  Revenge, Law, Curse

  William Blake, David Fuller (2000). “William Blake: Selected Poetry and Prose”, p.313, Pearson Education

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• The pride of the peacock is the glory of God. The lust of the goat is the bounty of God. The wrath of the lion is the wisdom of God. The nakedness of woman is the work of God.

  William Blake

  Wisdom, Work, Pride

  The Marriage of Heaven and Hell "Proverbs of Hell" (1790 - 1793)

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• To me this world is all one continued vision of fancy or imagination, and I feel flattered when I am told so. What is it sets Homer, Virgil and Milton in so high a rank of art? Why is the Bible more entertaining and instructive than any other book? Is it not because they are addressed to the imagination, which is spiritual sensation, and but immediately to the understanding or reason?

  William Blake

  Bible, Spiritual, Art

  William Blake (1988). “William Blake”, Oxford University Press, USA

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• The inquiry in England is not whether a man has talents and genius, but whether he is passive and polite and a virtuous ass and obedient to noblemen's opinions in art and science. If he is, he is a good man. If not, he must be starved.

  William Blake

  Respect, Art, Men

  William Blake (1988). “William Blake”, Oxford University Press, USA

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• The Prophets Isaiah and Ezekiel dined with me, and I asked them how they dared so roundly to assert, that God spoke to them; and whether they did not think at the time, that they would be misunderstood, & so be the cause of imposition. Isaiah answer'd, I saw no God, nor heard any, in a finite organical perception; but my senses discover'd the infinite in every thing, and as I was then persuaded, & remain confirm'd; that the voice of honest indignation is the voice of God, I cared not for consequences but wrote.

  William Blake

  Thinking, Ezekiel, Voice

  William Blake, “The Marriage Of Heaven And Hell”

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• The fox condemns the trap, not himself.

  William Blake

  Foxes, Traps

  William Blake (2013). “The Marriage of Heaven and Hell (Illuminated Manuscript with the Original Illustrations of William Blake)”, p.52, e-artnow

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• Hold infinity in the palm of your hand.

  William Blake

  Nature, Flower, Eternity Of Life

  'Auguries of Innocence' (c.1803) l. 1

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• The eye altering, alters all.

  William Blake

  Eye, Artist, Awareness

  The Mental Traveller

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• The Errors of a Wise Man make your Rule Rather than the Perfections of a Fool.

  William Blake

  Wise, Men, Errors

  'MS Note-Book' p. 42

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• He who wants, but doesn't act, is a pest.

  William Blake

  Inspirational, Motivational, Pests

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• Imagination is the real and eternal world of which this vegetable universe is but a faint shadow.

  William Blake

  Real, Writing, Artist

  William Blake (2000). “The Selected Poems of William Blake”, p.352, Wordsworth Editions

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• The crow wished everything was black, the Owl, that everything was white.

  William Blake

  Animal, White, Bird

  William Blake, W. H. Stevenson (2007). “Blake: The Complete Poems”, p.116, Pearson Education

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• One thought fills immensity.

  William Blake

  Thinking, Ideas, Immensity

  William Blake (2005). “Collected Poems”, p.167, Routledge

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• A dog starved at his master's gate Predicts the ruin of the state.

  William Blake

  Dog, Ruins, Robin Redbreast

  "Auguries of Innocence" l. 9 (ca. 1803)

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• Where any view of money exists, art cannot be carried on.

  William Blake

  Art, Money, Views

  William Blake (1966). “Complete Writings: With Variant Readings”, p.776, Oxford University Press, USA

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• Where others see but the dawn coming over the hill, I see the soul of God shouting for joy.

  William Blake

  Joy, Soul, Dawn

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