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William Blake Quotes

«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.»
«And I made a rural pen, / And I stained the water clear, / And I wrote my happy songs / Every child may joy to hear.»
Author: William Blake (Engraver, Mystic, Painter, Poet) | Keywords: stained
«The Vision of Christ that thou dost see / Is my vision's greatest enemy.»
«When a man has married a wife, he finds out whether / Her knees and elbows are only glued together.»
«Wandering in many a coral grove, / Fair Nine, forsaking Poetry!»
«The fields from Islington to Marybone, / To Primrose Hill and Saint John's Wood, / Were builded over with pillars of gold; / And there Jerusalem's pillars stood.»
«He is meek, and He is mild; / He became a little child. / I a child, and thou a lamb, / We are call?d by His name. / Little Lamb, God bless thee!»
«The generations of men run on in the tide of time, but leave their destined lineaments permanent for ever and ever.»
«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.»
«Brotherhood is Religion!»