William Blake Quotes, Depressing Quotes, Art Quotes

It is the greatest of crimes to depress true art and science.

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Then the Parson might preach, & drink, & sing, And we'd be as happy as birds in the spring; And modest dame Lurch, who is always at Church, Would not have bandy children, nor fasting, nor birch.

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The lamb misused breeds public strife And yet forgives the butcher's knife.

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Why cannot the ear be closed to its own destruction? Or the glistening eye to the poison of a smile?

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Prisons are built with stones of Law. Brothels with the bricks of religion.

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For I dance And drink and sing, Till some blind hand Shall brush my wing. If thought is life And strength and breath And the want Of thought is death Then am I A happy fly If I live Or if I die

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Men are admitted into heaven not because they have curbed and governed their passions or have no passions, but because they have cultivated their understandings. The treasures of heaven are not negations of passion, but realities of intellect, from which all the passions emanate uncurbed in their eternal glory.

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To some people a tree is something so incredibly beautiful that it brings tears to the eyes. To others it is just a green thing that stands in the way.

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The gulfing whale was like a dot in the spell. Yet look upon it, and 'twould size and swell To its huge self, and the minutest fish Would pass the very hardest gazer's wish, And show his little eye's anatomy.

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

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The human mind cannot go beyond the gift of God, the Holy Ghost. To suppose that art can go beyond the finest specimens of art that are now in the world is not knowing what art is; it is being blind to the gifts of the spirit.

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I turn my eyes to the schools & universities of Europe And there behold the loom of Locke whose woof rages dire, Washed by the water-wheels of Newton. Black the cloth In heavy wreaths folds over every nation; cruel works Of many wheels I view, wheel without wheel, with cogs tyrannic Moving by compulsion each other: not as those in Eden, which Wheel within wheel in freedom revolve, in harmony & peace.

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God appears, and God is Light, to those poor souls who dwell in Night; but does a Human Form display to those who dwell in realms of Day.

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Christ's crucifix shall be made an excuse for executing criminals.

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Imitation is criticism.

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Excessive sorrow laughs. Excessive joy weeps.

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To be an Error and to be Cast out is a part of God's Design.

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Eternity is in love with the productions of time.

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Dear Mother, dear Mother, the Church is cold, But the Ale-house is healthy and pleasant and warm.

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If the Sun and Moon should ever doubt, they'd immediately go out.

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