William Blake quotes - page 12

Thy heaven doors are my hell gates. (William Blake)
The road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom... You never know what is enough until you know what is more than enough. View quote
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Better to shun the bait than struggle in the snare. View quote
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For every thing that lives is Holy. View quote
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I will not reason and compare my business is to create. View quote
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O Rose thou art sick. The invisible worm, That flies in the night In the howling storm:. View quote
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excuse my enthusiasm or rather madness, for I am really drunk with intellectual vision whenever I take a pencil or graver into my hand. View quote
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I die, I die! View quote
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Thinking as I do that the Creator of this World is a very Cruel Being & being a Worshipper of Christ, I cannot help saying: "the Son, O how unlike the Father!" View quote
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Energy is an eternal delight, and he who desires, but acts not, breeds pestilence. View quote
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There is no mistake so great as the mistake of not going on. (William Blake)
The world of imagination is the world of eternity. It is the divine bosom into which we shall all go after the death of the vegetated i.e. mortal body. This world of imagination is infinite and eternal, whereas the world of generation is finite and temporal. There exist in that eternal world the eternal realities of everything which we see reflected in this vegetable glass of nature. View quote
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The nakedness of woman is the work of God. View quote
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To me this world is all one continued vision of fancy or imagination, and I feel flattered when I am told so. What is it sets Homer, Virgil and Milton in so high a rank of art Why is the Bible more entertaining and instructive than any other book Is it not because they are addressed to the imagination, which is spiritual sensation, and but immediately to the understanding or reason. View quote
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Shame is pride's cloak. View quote
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I care not whether a man is good or evil all that I care Is whether he is a wise man or a fool. Go put off holiness, And put on intellect. View quote
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The inquiry in England is not whether a man has talents and genius, but whether he is passive and polite and a virtuous ass and obedient to noblemen's opinions in art and science. If he is, he is a good man. If not, he must be starved. View quote
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Man has closed himself up, till he sees all things thro' narrow chinks of his cavern. View quote
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Then I asked Does a firm persuasion that a thing is so, make it so' He replied All Poets believe that it does, and in ages of imagination this firm persuasion removed mountains but many are not capable of a firm persuasion of anything.' View quote
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Mutual forgiveness of each vice. Such are the Gates of Paradise. View quote
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Since all the riches of this world May be gifts from the Devil and earthly kings, I should suspect that I worshipp'd the Devil If I thank'd my God for worldly things. (William Blake)
The generations of men run on in the tide of time, but leave their destined lineaments permanent for ever and ever. View quote
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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. View quote
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Mere enthusiasm is the all in all. . . . Passion and expression are beauty itself. View quote
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Christianity is art and not money. Money is its curse. View quote
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