William Blake
"The stars are threshed, and the souls are threshed from their husks."
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"Oh! why was I born with a different face? why was I not born like the rest of my race? when I look,each one starts! when I speak, I offend; then Im silent & passive & lose every friend. Then my verse I dishonour, my pictures despise, my person degrade & my temper chastise; and the pen is my terror, the pencil my shame; all my talents I bury, and dead is my fame. Im either too low or too highly prized; when elate I m envy'd, when meek Im despis'd"
William Blake
"The man who never alters his opinion is like standing water, and breeds reptiles of the mind."
William Blake
"You cannot have Liberty in this world without what you call Moral Virtue, and you cannot have Moral Virtue without the slavery of that half of the human race who hate what you call Moral Virtue."
William Blake
"For Mercy has a human heart;Pity, a human face;And Love, the human form divine:And Peace the human dress. Songs of Innocence Cruelty has a human heart And jealousy a human face,Terror the human form divine,And secrecy the human dress. The human dress is forged iron,The human form a fiery forge,The human face a furnace seal'd,The human heart its hungry gorge. Songs of Experience - This poem was discovered posthumously."
William Blake
"I was angry with my friend:I told my wrath, my wrath did end. I was angry with my foe:I told it not, my wrath did grow."
William Blake
"For I dance And drink and sing,Till some blind hand Shall brush my wing. If thought is life And strength and breath And the want Of thought is death Then am IA happy fly If I live Or if I die"
William Blake
"When a sinister person means to be your enemy, they always start by trying to become your friend"
William Blake
"“A truth that's told with bad intent Beats all the lies you can invent.”"
William Blake
Auguries of Innocence
"The following Discourse [on art, by Sir Joshua Reynolds] is particularly Interesting to Blockheads as it endeavours to prove that There is No such thing as Inspiration & that any Man of a plain Understanding may by Thieving from Others become a Mich Angelo."
William Blake
"Man has no Body distinct from his soul; for that called Body is a portion of a Soul discerned by the five senses, the chief inlets of Soul in this age."
William Blake
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