William Blake

William Blake was an English poet, painter, and printmaker. Largely unrecognised during his lifetime, Blake is now considered a seminal figure in the history of both the poetry and visual arts of the Romantic Age. His prophetic poetry has been said more..

William Blake:Enough! or too much. #

William Blake: What is now proved was only once imagined. #Imagination

William Blake: What is the price of experience? Do men buy it for a song? Or wisdom for a dance in the street? No, it is bought with the price of all the man hath, his house, his wife, his children. #Wisdom

William Blake: Always be ready to speak your mind, and a base man will avoid you. #Candor

William Blake: 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. #Altruism

William Blake:When my mother died I was very young, And my father sold me while yet my tongue Could scarcely cry 'weep! 'weep! 'weep!'weep! So your chimneys I sweep, and in soot I sleep. #Death and Dying

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. #Truth

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. #Liberty

William Blake: Fun I love, but too much fun is of all things the most loathsome. Mirth is better than fun, and happiness is better than mirth. #Fun

William Blake:Reason, or the ratio of all we have already known, is not the same that it shall be when we know more. #Morality

William Blake:I myself do nothing. The Holy Spirit accomplishes all through me. #Spirit and Spirituality

William Blake: The generations of men run on in the tide of time, but leave their destined lineaments permanent for ever and ever. #Generations

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. #Nature

William Blake: He whose face gives no light, shall never become a star. #Stardom

William Blake: Expect poison from standing water. #Idleness

William Blake: The man who never alters his opinion is like standing water, and breeds reptiles of the mind. #Opinions

William Blake: The truth told with bad intent Beats all the lies you can invent #Truth

William Blake:There can be no Good Will. Will is always Evil; it is persecution to others or selfishness. #Persecution

William Blake:Never seek to tell thy love Love that never told can be; For the gentle wind does move Silently, invisibly. I told my love, I told my love, I told her all my heart; Trembling, cold, in ghastly fears Ah, she doth depart. Soon as she was gone from me A traveler came by Silently, invisibly Oh, was no deny. #Love

William Blake: What seems to be, is, to those to whom it seems to be, and is productive of the most dreadful consequences to those to whom it seems to be, even of torments, despair, eternal death. #Illusion

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