Excessive sorrow laughs. Excessive joy weeps.
WILLIAM BLAKEThe imagination is not a state: it is the human existence itself.
More William Blake Quotes
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When I tell the truth, it is not for the sake of convincing those who do not know it, but for the sake of defending those that do.
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Imagination is the real and eternal world of which this vegetable universe is but a faint shadow.
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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.
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Always be ready to speak your mind and a base man will avoid you.
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To Generalize is to be an Idiot; To Particularize is the Alone Distinction of Merit.
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We become what we behold.
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And Priests in black gowns, were walking their rounds, And binding with briars, my joys & desires.
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For every thing that lives is Holy.
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The apple tree never asks the beech how he shall grow, nor the lion, the horse, how he shall take his prey.
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How can a bird that is born for joy Sit in a cage and sing?
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In the universe, there are things that are known, and things that are unknown, and in between, there are doors.
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The lamb misused breeds public strife And yet forgives the butcher’s knife.
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Do what you will, this life’s a fiction, And it is made up of contradiction.
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Everything possible to be believed is an image of truth.
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He who kisses joy as it flies by will live in eternity’s sunrise.
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