William Blake

William Blake

Poet, Painter

William Blake was an English poet and artist known for his visionary works, including 'Songs of Innocence and of Experience,' which explore profound themes of imagination and humanity.

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Born
November 28, 1757
Died
August 12, 1827
Quotes
466
Rank
#61

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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."

Thinking Ezekiel Voice
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"Nothing is real beyond imaginative patterns men make of reality."

Real Men Patterns
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"Does a firm persuasion that a thing is so, make it so?"

Doe Persuasion Firm
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"Angels are happier than men and devils, because they are not always prying after good and evil in one another, and eating the tree of knowledge for Satan's gratification."

Angel Men Evil
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"Then my verse I dishonor, my pictures despise, my person degrade and my temper chastise; and the pen is my terror, the pencil my shame; and my talents I bury, and dead is my fame."

Despair Talent Shame
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"O white-robed Angel, guide my timorous hand to write as on a lofty rock with iron pen the words of truth, that all who pass may read."

Angel Writing Hands
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"Commerce is so far from being beneficial to arts, or to empire, that it is destructive of both, as all their history shows, for the above reason of individual merit being its great hatred. Empires flourish till they become commercial, and then they are scattered abroad to the four winds."

Art Business Wind
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"What is it men in women do require: The lineaments of gratified desire. What is it women do in men require: The lineaments of gratified desire."

Men Desire
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"Man was made for joy and woe, and when this we rightly know through the world we safely go. Joy and woe are woven fine, a clothing for the soul to bind."

Men Joy Soul
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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."

Hope Rain Fall
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"When the stars threw down their spears, and watered heaven with their tears, did he smile his work to see? Did he who made the Lamb make thee?"

Stars Heaven Tears
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"To the eyes of a miser a guinea is more beautiful than the sun, and a bag worn with the use of money has more beautiful proportions than a vine filled with grapes."

Beautiful Money Eye
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"The tigers of wrath are wiser than the horses of instruction."

Wise Wisdom Horse
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"I wander thro' each charter'd street, Near where the charter'd Thames does flow, And mark in every face I meet Marks of weakness, marks of woe. In every cry of every Man, In every Infant's cry of fear, In every voice, in every ban, The mind-forg'd manacles I hear. How the Chimney-sweeper's cry Every black'ning Church appalls; And the hapless Soldier's sigh Runs in blood down Palace walls. But most thro' midnight streets I hear How the youthful Harlot's curse Blasts the new born Infant's tear, And blights with plagues the Marriage hearse."

Running Wall Men
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"On no other ground Can I sow my seed Without tearing up Some stinking weed."

Weed Seeds
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"Prudence is a rich, ugly, old maid courted by incapacity."

Maids Ugly Action
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"Harmony of colouring is destructive of art? it is like the smile of a fool."

Art Fool Harmony
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"O thou who passest through our valleys in Thy strength, curb thy fierce steeds, allay the heat That flames from their large nostrils! Thou, O Summer, Oft pitchest here thy golden tent, and oft Beneath our oaks hast slept, while we beheld With joy thy ruddy limbs and flourishing hair."

Summer Flames Hair
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