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William Blake Quotes

«The pride of the peacock is the glory of God./ The lust of the goat is the bounty of God. / The wrath of the lion is the wisdom of God. / The nakedness of woman is the work of God.»
«Sweet babe, in thy face Soft desires I can trace, Secret joys and secret smiles, Little pretty infant wiles»
«I must Create a System or be enslav'd by another Man's»
Author: William Blake (Engraver, Mystic, Painter, Poet) | Keywords: system
«What is the price of experience? Do men buy it for a song? Or wisdom for a dance in the street? No, it is bought with the price of all the man hath, his house, his wife, his children.»
«Mutual Forgiveness of each vice, / Such are the Gates of Paradise.»
«The wrath of the lion is the wisdom of God.»
Author: William Blake (Engraver, Mystic, Painter, Poet) | About: Animals, God, Wisdom | Keywords: lion, wrath
«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.»
«Shame is pride's cloak.»
«Every tear from every eye / Becomes a babe in Eternity.»
«Tiger! Tiger! burning bright / In the forests of the night, / What immortal hand or eye / Could frame thy fearful symmetry?»

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