William Blake Quotes, Despair Quotes, Talent Quotes

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.

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But when he has done this, let him not say that he knows better than his master, for he only holds a candle in sunshine.

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Rome & Greece swept Art into their maw & destroy'd it; a Warlike State never can produce Art. It will Rob & Plunder & accumulate into one place, & Translate & Copy & Buy & Sell & Criticize, but not Make.

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When Sir Joshua Reynolds died All Nature was degraded; The King dropped a tear in the Queen's ear, And all his pictures faded.

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Where there is money there is no art.

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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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Silent as despairing love, and strong as jealousy.

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Wisdom is sold in a desolate marketplace where none can come to buy.

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Naught can deform the human race Like to the armor's iron brace.

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Mercy is the golden chain by which society is bound together.

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The lust of the goat is the bounty of God.

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

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I must create a system or be enslaved by another mans; I will not reason and compare: my business is to create.

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The pure soul shall mount on native wings, . . . and cut a path into the heaven of glory.

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Man has no Body distinct from his Soul; for that called Body is a portion of Soul discerned by the five Senses, the chief inlets of Soul in this age.

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Energy is the only life, and is from the body; and reason is the bound or outward circumference of energy. Energy is eternal delight.

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Exuberance is beauty.

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The crow wished everything was black, the Owl, that everything was white.

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But if at church they would give some ale. And a pleasant fire our souls to regale. We'd sing and we'd pray all the live long day, Nor ever once from the church to stray.

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Each man is haunted until his humanity awakens.

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