I was walking among the fires of Hell, delighted with the enjoyments of Genius; which to Angels look like torment and insanity.
WILLIAM BLAKEExcuse my enthusiasm or rather madness, for I am really drunk with intellectual vision whenever I take a pencil or graver into my hand.
More William Blake Quotes
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He who would do good to another must do it in Minute Particulars; General Good is the plea of the scoundrel, hypocrite and flatterer: For Art and Science cannot exist but in minutely organized Particulars.
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Energy is eternal delight.
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A good local pub has much in common with a church, except that a pub is warmer, and there’s more conversation.
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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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The tigers of wrath are wiser than the horses of instruction.
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For every thing that lives is Holy.
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What is now proved was once only imagined.
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The thankful receiver bears a plentiful harvest.
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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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I must create a system, or be enslaved by another man’s. I will not reason and compare: my business is to create.
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When nations grow old the Arts grow cold And commerce settles on every tree
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My mother groaned, my father wept,i nto the dangerous world I leapt.
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He who kisses joy as it flies by will live in eternity’s sunrise.
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And Priests in black gowns, were walking their rounds, And binding with briars, my joys & desires.
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