What is grand is necessarily obscure to weak men. That which can be made explicit to the idiot is not worth my care.
WILLIAM BLAKEThe imagination is not a state: it is the human existence itself.
More William Blake Quotes
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I was walking among the fires of Hell, delighted with the enjoyments of Genius; which to Angels look like torment and insanity.
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Everything to be imagined is an image of truth.
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Excessive sorrow laughs. Excessive joy weeps.
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Knowledge is Life with wings
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The moon, like a flower in heaven’s high bower, with silent delight sits and smiles on the night.
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My mother groaned, my father wept,i nto the dangerous world I leapt.
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Dip him in the river who loves water.
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Improvement makes strait roads, but the crooked roads without Improvement, are roads of Genius.
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The eye altering, alters all.
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Without contraries is no progression. Attraction and repulsion, reason and energy, love and hate, are necessary to human existence.
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The fool who persists in his folly will become wise.
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I will not reason and compare my business is to create.
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As a man is, so he sees. As the eye is formed, such are its powers.
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Mercy is the golden chain by which society is bound together.
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The most sublime act is to set another before you.
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