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 little ones leaped, and shouted, and laugh'd And all the hills echoed"

Laughing Littles Hills
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"The Britons (say historians) were naked, civilized men, learned, studious, abstruse in thought and contemplation; naked, simple, plain in their acts and manners; wiser than after ages."

Simple Men Age
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"Praises reap not! Joys laugh not! Sorrows weep not!"

Laughing Joy Sorrow
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"He who has few things to desire cannot have many to fear."

Desire
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"Knowledge of ideal beauty is not to be acquired. It is born with us. Innate ideas are in every man, born with him; theyare truly himself."

Men Ideas Born
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"Mercy, Pity, Peace Is the world's release."

World Pity Mercy
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"A DIVINE IMAGE Cruelty has a human heart, And Jealousy a human face; Terror the human form divine, And Secresy the human dress. The human dress is forged iron, The human form a fiery forge, The human face a furnace sealed, The human heart its hungry gorge."

Heart Iron Faces
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"I am under the direction of messengers from Heaven daily and nightly."

Heaven Messengers
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"He who makes his law a curse, by his own law shall surely die."

Revenge Law Curse
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"Forgive what you do not approve & love me for this energetic exertion of my talent"

Forgiving Talent Energetic
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"Where any view of money exists, art cannot be carried on."

Art Money Views
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"'Come hither, my boy, tell me what thou seest there?' 'A fool tangled in a religious snare.'"

Religious Boys Tangled
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"Every wolf's and lion's howl Raises from Hell a human soul."

Soul Lions Hell
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"Joy and woe are woven fine."

Joy Woven Woe
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"I thought Love lived in the hot sunshine, But O, he lives in the moony light! I thought to find Love in the heat of day, But sweet Love is the comforter of night."

Sweet Inspirational Love Sunshine
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"Every thing possible to be believ'd is an image of truth."

Truth Lying Believe
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"Some will say, Is not God alone the Prolific? I answer, God only Acts & Is, in existing beings or Men."

Men Atheism Answers
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