William Blake
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Biography
William Blake was an English poet, painter and printmaker. Largely unrecognised during his life, Blake has become a seminal figure in the history of the poetry and visual art of the Romantic Age.
"He who would do good to another must do it in Minute Particulars: general Good is the plea of the scoundrel, hypocrite, and flatterer, for Art and Science cannot exist but in minutely organized Particulars."
"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."
"Opposition is true friendship."
"Art can never exist without naked beauty displayed."
"A truth that's told with bad intentBeats all the lies you can invent."
"If a thing loves, it is infinite."
"I am in you and you in me, mutual in divine love."
"Love seeketh not itself to please, nor for itself hath any care, but for another gives its ease, and builds a Heaven in Hell's despair."
"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."
"What is now proved was once only imagined."
"The road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom."
"Eternity is in love with the productions of time."
"You never know what is enough unless you know what is more than enough."
"Truth can never be told so as to be understood and not be believed."
"He whose face gives no light, shall never become a star."
"If the doors of perception were cleansed, everything would appear to man as it is - infinite."
"A man can't soar too high, when he flies with his own wings."
"Improvement makes strait roads, but the crooked roads without Improvement, are roads of Genius."
"He who binds to himself a joyDoes the winged life destroy;But he who kisses the joy as it fliesLives in eternity's sun rise."
"Better to shun the bait than struggle in the snare."
"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."
"Exuberance is beauty."
"For every thing that lives is Holy."
"A Robin Redbreast in a CagePuts all Heaven in a Rage.A dove house fill’d with doves and pigeonsShudders Hell thro’ all its regions.A Dog starv’d at his Master’s GatePredicts the ruin of the State.A Horse misus’d upon the RoadCalls to Heaven for Human blood.Each outcry of the hunted HareA fiber from the Brain does tear."
"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."