William Blake

William Blake

"I must create a system, or be enslaved by another man's. I will not reason and compare: my business is to create."
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"I must create a system, or be enslaved by another man's. I will not reason and compare: my business is to create."
William Blake Jerusalem: The Emanation of the Giant Albion
"The glory of Christianity is to conquer by forgiveness."
William Blake
"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."
William Blake Auguries of Innocence
"The tree which moves some to tears of joy is in the eyes of others only a green thing that stands in the way. Some see nature all ridicule and deformity... and some scarce see nature at all. But to the eyes of the man of imagination, nature is imagination itself."
William Blake
"When nations grow old the Arts grow cold And commerce settles on every tree"
William Blake
"“A Robin Redbreast in a Cage Puts all Heaven in a Rage. A dove house fill’d with doves and pigeons Shudders Hell thro’ all its regions. A Dog starv’d at his Master’s Gate Predicts the ruin of the State. A Horse misus’d upon the Road Calls to Heaven for Human blood. Each outcry of the hunted Hare A fiber from the Brain does tear.”"
William Blake
"“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.”"
William Blake Auguries of Innocence
"“Truth can never be told so as to be understood and not be believed.”"
William Blake
"He who binds to himself a joy Does the winged life destroy;But he who kisses the joy as it flies Lives in eternity's sun rise."
William Blake
"“I must create a system, or be enslaved by another man's. I will not reason and compare: my business is to create.”"
William Blake Jerusalem: The Emanation of the Giant Albion
"Poetry fettered, fetters the human race. Nations are destroyed or flourish in proportion as their poetry, painting, and music are destroyed or flourish."
William Blake
"What is the price of experience? Do men buy it for a song? Or wisdom for a dance in the street? No, it is bought with the price of all the man hath, his house, his wife, his children."
William Blake
"The hours of folly are measured by the clock; but of wisdom, no clock can measure."
William Blake
"Want of money and the distress of a thief can never be alleged as the cause of his thieving, for many honest people endure greater hardships with fortitude. We must therefore seek the cause elsewhere than in want of money, for that is the miser's passion, not the thief s."
William Blake
"No bird soars too high if he soars with his own wings."
William Blake
"Can I see another's woe, and not be in sorrow too? Can I see another's grief, and not seek for kind relief?"
William Blake
"The bird a nest, the spider a web, man friendship."
William Blake
"Opposition is true friendship."
William Blake
"Imagination is the real and eternal world of which this vegetable universe is but a faint shadow."
William Blake
"Art can never exist without naked beauty displayed."
William Blake
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