William Blake Quotes, Wise Quotes, Hurt Quotes

I am really sorry to see my countrymen trouble themselves about politics. If men were wise, the most arbitrary princes could not hurt them. If they are not wise, the freest government is compelled to be a tyranny. Princes appear to me to be fools. Houses of Commons and Houses of Lords appear to me to be fools; they seem to me to be something else besides human life.

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My Brother starv'd between two Walls,His Children's Cry my Soul appalls

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Thou fair-hair'd angel of the evening, Now, whilst the sun rests on the mountains, light Thy bright torch of love; thy radiant crown Put on, and smile upon our evening bed!

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[L]et light Rise from the chambers of the east, and bring The honey'd dew that cometh on waking day. O radiant morning.

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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.

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

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I'm sure this Jesus will not do Either for Englishman or Jew.

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Grown old in love from seven till seven times seven,I oft have wished for Hell for ease from Heaven.

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The fool who persists in his folly will become wise.

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Poetry fettered fetters the human race.

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Jesus & his apostles & disciples were all artists

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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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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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The atoms of Democritus And Newton's particles of light Are sands upon the Red Sea shore, Where Israel's tents do shine so bright.

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The Prophets Isaiah and Ezekiel dined with me, and I asked them how they dared so roundly to assert, that God spoke to them; and whether they did not think at the time, that they would be misunderstood, & so be the cause of imposition. Isaiah answer'd, I saw no God, nor heard any, in a finite organical perception; but my senses discover'd the infinite in every thing, and as I was then persuaded, & remain confirm'd; that the voice of honest indignation is the voice of God, I cared not for consequences but wrote.

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The imagination is not a state: it is the human existence itself.

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Always be ready to speak your mind, and a base man will avoid you.

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If you have formed a circle to go into,Go into it yourself and see how you would do.

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Man has closed himself up, till he sees all things thro' narrow chinks of his cavern.

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To see a world in a grain of sand and a heaven in a wildflower.

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