William Blake

William Blake

"When nations grow old the Arts grow cold And commerce settles on every tree"
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"When nations grow old the Arts grow cold And commerce settles on every tree"
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
"How can a bird that is born for joy Sit in a cage and sing?"
William Blake
"May God us keep From Single vision and Newton's sleep."
William Blake
"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
"If the Sun and Moon should ever doubt, they'd immediately go out."
William Blake
"I give you the end of a golden string,Only wind it into a ball,It will lead you in at Heaven's gate Built in Jerusalem's wall."
William Blake
"But to go to school in a summer morn,O! It drives all joy away;Under a cruel eye outworn,The little ones spend the day In sighing and dismay."
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
"The lamb misused breeds public strife And yet forgives the butcher's knife."
William Blake
"Truth can never be told so as to be understood and not be believed."
William Blake
"He whose face gives no light, shall never become a star."
William Blake
"What is grand is necessarily obscure to weak men. That which can be made explicit to the idiot is not worth my care."
William Blake
"Better to shun the bait than struggle in the snare."
William Blake
"If the doors of perception were cleansed, everything would appear to man as it is - infinite."
William Blake
"When i tell the truth, it is not for the sake of convincing those who do not know it, but for the sake of defending those that do."
William Blake
"The glory of Christianity is to conquer by forgiveness."
William Blake
"Exuberance is beauty."
William Blake
"A man can't soar too high, when he flies with his own wings."
William Blake
"What is now proved was once only imagined."
William Blake
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